Sentence examples for took a sentence from inspiring English sources

Your July 13 editorial "The Forgetful Mr. Smith" took a sentence in a letter several colleagues and I sent to the Clinton administration out of context, so you didn't give your readers the whole story.

Of the 10 sentenced on Tuesday, only two took a sentencing deal offered at the last minute by the judge, which involved them accepting responsibility for their part in the corruption, admitting wrongdoing and apologizing.

Let's take a sentence.

My advice is to take a sentence and turn it into a password.

Take a sentence like "Jesus wept," and let students learn the power of a short sentence by creating their own two-word sentences.

"General Conference is not to be understood through sound bites, especially when people take a sentence here and there and try to justify their own political agendas.

Take a sentence such as: "The child is standing behind the tree" – you'd imagine all languages would behave in the same way when describing something so simple.

Events in texts like the Gospels do not come in equal lengths: some miracles take a sentence or two, while the Passion narrative unfolds at a much more expansive pace.

There can be only countably many such cardinals, of course, because each one takes a sentence.

Following Gillon (1992), Nicolas (2008) takes a sentence containing a mass noun to be ambiguous with respect to coverings.

In this second use, the functor (operator, connective) "It is a fact that" takes a sentence to make a sentence (an alternative view has it that "It is a fact" takes a nominalised sentence, a that-clause, to make a sentence), and the predicate "is a fact" is either elliptic for the functor, or takes a nominalised sentence to make a sentence.