Sentence examples for sentence reader from inspiring English sources

I won't spoil the ending — I already did that for "The Deathly Hallows" in my last post — except to say that it involves a Quaker boarding school, a Burma veteran, a chance encounter, and a variation on the classic sentence "Reader, I married him".

Among other problems in this overstuffed sentence, readers will be surprised to read that one budget plan included "new revenues from his leadership team".

A few sentences readers mentioned — from Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway, Ernest Hemingwayy's "Hills Like White Elephants" and Gabriel García Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" — were on my short list for this essay or another in the series.

But you can also argue, of course, that, on encountering the same sentence, a reader with racist views wouldn't be shocked or shamed at all.

Based on the content of that first sentence, a reader will either look deeper into the story, or move on to the next article.

After reading the concluding sentence, the reader should have no doubt as to the accuracy or relevance of the paragraph as a whole.

After just six sentences, the reader knows Claudia intimately, and is ready to go to the Met.

It's very hard to pinpoint why this apparently gentle meander down the generations is so gloriously addictive, so delectably enjoyable, but within sentences, the reader is snared, and kept captive to the last.

Within the first few sentences, the reader will evaluate whether your article is worth reading in its entirety.

Write a short sentence, inviting readers to call you: "If you would like more information about our craft expert's visit, please call Betsy Smith at 555/555-1234 or email her at [email protected]".com

Long, complex sentences slow readers down and can lead our syntax astray.