Sentence examples for sentence sound from inspiring English sources

He makes the sentence sound like a magical spell.

The achievement of "Black Sheep," a pastoral horror-comedy from New Zealand, can be measured in its ability to make that sentence sound both sinister and hilarious.

The problem with stranding a preposition is that it can end the sentence with a word that is too lightweight to serve as its focal point, making the sentence sound like "the last sputter of an engine going dead".

"An aunt sent me an essay by Frost on sentence sound and the use of vernacular in poetry when I was about 17. Frost says you have a vernacular, so use it.

Researchers taught machines that when the pitch of a voice rises at the end of a sentence it usually means a question, only to have their work spoiled by the emergence of what linguists call "uptalk" — that Valley Girl way of making a declarative sentence sound like a question?

First she offered a run of memories: "Executives, producers, the directors, my fellow actors out there, we've giggled through love scenes, we've punched and cried and spit and vomited and blown snot all over one another … " By using anaphora (1) ("we've giggled... we've punched") and polysyndeton (2) (all those ands), she made the sentence sound loose, spontaneous, a little out of control.

Even to the untrained ear that sentence sounds awkward.

If the sentence sounds hard-won, this is perhaps because it was.

She's fully authorized to kill off a character if the sentence sounds better that way.

Take out the words "blond divorcées" and substitute "unmarried women" and see how the sentence sounds.

Way to go!" But she did not like my starting sentences with "and," saying that the second sentence sounded "tacked on".