Sentence examples similar to filled sentences from inspiring English sources

This book is filled with sentences like these, from Trevor-Roper's time at Oxford: "During the fish course, a trout, thrown from a distance, disintegrated in midair, and struck Hugh a glancing blow.

Instead, the review was filled with sentences like the following: "Depicting slavery as a horror show, McQueen has made the most unpleasant American movie since William Friedkin's 1973 The Exorcist.

"The Male Brain" is filled with sentences like "Boys are programmed to move" and, about the older man drawn to the younger woman, "He was being biologically bewitched to bond with her".

The story is a long lament, a portrait of a mind hating itself, filled with sentences like this: "What terms might be used to describe such a solipsistic, self-consumed, bottomless emotional vacuum and sponge as she now appeared to herself to be?" The dark thoughts of "The Depressed Person" soon grow tedious and trying, but that's precisely Wallace's point.

And then the graffiti, in overlapping triplicate: in my station; in hers; and in what was in effect both, scrawled by my fellow passengers on the poster's tiles peoples' names that took no notice of what they were written on, crude addenda, thought bubbles filled with sentences that made the title of the play sound tame.

The next act, "Accident," is backed by jungle/drum'n'bass and filled with sentences that show up like flashes, such as "fabelado também tem iutubi" ("slum dwellers also got YouTube").

Probably those would be great sentences – soaring sentences, filled with inspirational rhetoric and time-tested quips hinting here and there that actually what I was talking about was life itself, and not hockey after all.

"I am aware that I fill my sentences with question marks," said a twentysomething who works in a research firm.

That's almost what today's quote is about, but William ZINSSER also warns us against filling our sentences with puffery: words like POTENTIALIZE and PARADIGM might sound impressive, but what is the point if you just confuse your reader?

Two different tasks were used in the experiment: one in which subjects were required to fill in sentences and choose the appropriate answer in a multiple choice exercise (lexical test), and the other was a rating task designed to assess semantic relationships.

Decrease the use of words that fill your sentences.