Sentence examples for sentences whose from inspiring English sources

He is at his best creating ornate sentences whose similes and strings of adjectives have a propulsive momentum.

We Are Now Beginning Our Descent is full of sentences whose sole purpose is to keep the narrative strands apart.

Instead, a calm emanates from the structure of the sentences, whose stately cadences reassure the reader even as they mark out the hard times.

Clive James, the Australian critic and satirist, now working in London, has rightly described him as "a dream interviewee, talking in eerily quotable sentences whose English has the faintly extraterritorial perfection of a Conrad or a Nabokov").

Analysis would uncover philosophically troublesome logical fictions in sentences whose logical forms are unclear on the surface, and it would ultimately reveal the nature of the reality to which language is connected.

Most other states that impose extra-long sentences after a third offense require it to be a violent or at least a serious crime, but there are 344 people in California serving life sentences whose third crime was petty theft.

He makes dramatic declarations and shows flashes of insight and humour amid half-sentences whose meanings shimmer and scatter like fish in cloudy water.

Consider a sentence whose words have been chosen because together they express a certain idea.

I struggle to understand this sentence, whose multiple negatives resist reduction to sense.

It's a sentence whose full implications we are still only beginning to understand.

ALAN GREENSPAN has earned a reputation in his 18 years as Federal Reserve chairman as a master of the 50-word sentence whose meaning is nearly impossible to untangle.