Sentence examples for trailing sentence from inspiring English sources

Facebook, meanwhile, always promoted that attitude: its initial prompt for status updates, the trailing sentence "Alex is …" allowed for almost any interpretation.

It is a major task to unravel the long trailing sentences of a writer such as Evliya Çelebi (died c. 1684), who, in an account of his travels (Seyahatname), has left extremely valuable information about the cultural climate in different parts of the Ottoman Empire.

He is confident to a fault, often trailing a sentence with "God protect me from arrogance".

By now, the pace was beginning to trail off, sentence order was going out the window and the rhyme scheme was sounding increasingly strained.

Whether or not it works.... ...... he said, his words trailing off, the sentence unfinished.

The sound audience members get most used to hearing is the silence of a sentence trailing off, abandoned by its speaker.

"The thing is, when these things happen, and we see them happening to other people, they think, 'Oh, they must be ecstatic,' " Mr. Ames said in his trademark deadpan, which makes him sound like an undertaker, each lugubrious sentence trailing off, as if he is losing the energy to finish it.

They interrupt, they desert thoughts half-expressed, sentences trailing off, or exploding in bursts of passion.