Sentence examples for individual sentences from inspiring English sources

Within each endless paragraph the individual sentences are often several lines long.

The writing test now calls for assessing what is wrong with a paragraph rather than just individual sentences.

Each of the 12 men, who were led into the dock one by one, remained impassive as the individual sentences were given.

If Patterson is not overly concerned with individual sentences, it's fair to say that whoever actually is in charge of them doesn't care much either.

But it would be wrong to promote such technical matters, important as they are, ahead of the ring of individual sentences that behave with a witty toughness that is the equal of either O'Connor's or Welty's.

I could have used more vivisection — the laying bare of individual sentences, and the probing of syntactical tissue — but no one could deny how densely the author is steeped in his theme.

The power of the individual sentence or phrase With only 800 words with which to impress the judges, every sentence carries weight.

We're not at the stage yet of being able to see clearly individual sentence patterns and words, but it's not long off".

Likewise, Saunders has often spoken of attending not to theme, or overall structure, but to the individual sentence: get that right, and the rest, he says, will fall into place.

Building on a 2005 decision that held the sentencing guidelines to be advisory rather than mandatory, the new rulings affirm that the guidelines are but one factor to be considered by a trial judge in arriving at an individual sentence, and that an appeals court must have a strong reason to overturn that sentence.

Although revered for his intelligence and his humour, over the years some critics have recoiled from him for being too clever, brilliant at the level of the individual sentence, but no good, they say, at endings or characterisation or plot development, or any of the conventions necessary to story-telling.