Sentence examples for paragraphs off from inspiring English sources

At conferences and department seminars, it's not unusual to see presenters who overwhelm the audience with information, read entire paragraphs off their slides, or spend more time looking at the projector screen than at the audience.

"'A living did not matter, unless there were things to live for.' I knew that paragraph off by heart," Smith said.

She's hamstrung by the novel, which despite the humid tangle of its paragraphs gives off a clammy chill of aestheticism.

A bold retort to the gray pages of traditional newspapers, it had color photographs, eye-catching graphics and bite-sizestories with paragraphs set off by bullets.

Here is what should go in the first paragraph: Start off with one or two sentences that gives the agent a "blurb" of what your book is about.

(In the film Yolanda is asked if she can remember any Hebrew, and to everyone's surprise, rattles off a few paragraphs of the Hebrew Sabbath liturgy).

Brevity, veracity, concision are "the Law and the Prophets for the Writer" Carlyle added, ignoring his own advice to windbag on for several long paragraphs before signing off with kind respects and thanks.

Long paragraphs of text can be a real turn off, and will run the risk of being skim read.

On his return to the mainland, Boswell sent off paragraphs to the newspapers, mingling facts with fantastic political speculation.

Where possible, start off paragraphs with a thoroughly unnecessary observation, such as "When people are hungry, they usually seek to eat".

The last sentence in this paragraph should finish off the argument, naturally leading into the third paragraph of the body.