Sentence examples for not sentences from inspiring English sources

Rap is a musical art form – not sentences simply set to a backing track.

Only occasionally does he provide insight into his working techniques (he briefly describes how he communicated in the earpiece of his great sports anchor Jim McKay: "phrases, not sentences; soft, not loud").

It contains little, if any, information about strings of words that are not sentences.

But, ultimately, it is the ontological commitment of persons that we care about, not sentences.

Against this, it can be argued that referring is among the speech acts speakers routinely perform and that this speech act is done with words, not sentences.

It is the view of many but not all pragmatists that the primary bearers of truth-conditional contents are utterances, not sentences; or, even better, that truth-conditional contents or propositions are expressed by the speakers who utter sentences, not by the sentences themselves.

Her talent was singing, not sentence construction.

He was not sentenced to jail.

It has not sentenced any to death in the past eight years.

He was not sentenced to 20 years at hard labor.

She says "there were 414 inmates of whom 169 had been arrested but not sentenced.