Sentence examples for great sentences from inspiring English sources

Great sentences can transcend the storylines from which they come.

Somehow, Yates continued to fashion great sentences from these unpromising circumstances.

It was addictive, and useful; I liked being able to glance back through, say, "Great Expectations," and discovering all of its great sentences already cued up for me.

Sentence by sentence, it may have the highest density of great sentences of all DeLillo's novels, at two or three times as long as the rest.

He appears slightly nervous, but when he talks – and he talks in great sentences that flow like ribbons from his mouth, often providing answers to questions that haven't been asked – he does so with earnest sincerity.

As long as we are making lists of great sentences, let me include my favorite line from a film trailer: "We've got 500 years of prison time at this table.

She also writes a great sentence.

"He was a great sentence writer, he destroyed sentences," Butler told me.

Not a great sentence to write knowing it's going to be read by the public at large.

In retrospect, though, I wish I'd left it in the running: it's a great sentence and seems to have had a lot of fans.

The pleasures of Korean fried chicken, for instance, are described over the course of two and a half pages, with a great sentence placed right in the middle of the run: "Here's how it works".