Sentence examples for sentence work from inspiring English sources

Ask: Why does each sentence "work"?

Why didn't that sentence work?

Will this sentence work here?

The job involved sitting at a table in an art gallery, repeatedly writing into notebooks the sentence "work is dictatorship" for 12 days, eight hours a day.

There should be pleasure in the language alone, yet not so much indulgent glee in the sentence work that it robs the characters of their oxygen.

McLane's many dictions and registers, her playful digressions and pouncing aperçus, her fast footwork that takes her from sorrow to arch amusement in half a sentence, work to demonstrate that.

In this two-parter, Daniel struggles with his banishment order and Amantha has to decide whether she must serve a life sentence working at Thrifty Town.

Is every chapter, every paragraph, every sentence working as hard as it could be to develop a character or progress the story?

Near the end, Quirke's daughter discusses the strange necessity for red herrings in detective novels – and next sentence works out the key to one of the deaths.

Many of those still behind bars, including several murderers, had spent part of their sentence working at the governor's mansion as part of a long-standing rehabilitation scheme.

In Rashidiye, the Fatah commander for Lebanon, Sultan Abu Alaynen, who, despite being under an apparently somewhat technical Lebanese death sentence, works from an office suite surrounded by heavily armed guards.