Sentence examples for like a sentenced from inspiring English sources
Instead, he walks around with a queasy frozen grin, like a sentenced prisoner who vainly hopes to charm his executioner out of killing him.
It felt like a sentence, an imprisonment of creativity".
A relative clause is like a sentence: it has a subject, and may also have an object.
It is a novel that can be parsed like a sentence; it is that well made.
A former athlete, Phillips said it felt "like a sentence from hell".
He gave something each month, and it constricted his life, hanging over him like a sentence.
"It is almost like a sentence spelled out with these beautiful colorful lines," said Cecilia Alemani, curator of the High Line.
The long line could be dense and impacted, like a sentence out of Henry James, or loose, capacious and Whitmanesque.
Occasionally, the shade of Baudelaire becomes vampiric: "La nuit tombe sur vous comme un arrêt de mort" ("Night falls like a sentence of death") sounds like a pastiche.
For example, well written Smalltalk code can look like a sentence in English, e.g., Clock display Time now.
