Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Mother made a frame with cardboard, glue, and thread, and Nasser’s photograph, with this sentence written underneath, was the only picture in our home. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

To date, not a single successful challenge has ever been made to racial bias in sentencing under McCleskey v. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Actually, they did not dare carry out the sentence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Obiora s sentence had a lift at the end, and it came out sounding like a question: “to the glory of God?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

That is, my eyes kept tracing over the sentences and my mouth kept forming the words. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They have served as judge, jury, and executioner for your entire childhood, and it feels like they give you a life sentence for every misdemeanor. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Tell me anything other than she’s serving a prison sentence here. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

So this is the correct sentence: Lou sees what appear to be ghosts. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the telephone game—when the final sentence is uttered, it doesn’t quite sound like what it started out as. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She picked up the book and opened it to the middle and read a single sentence. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The two middle-aged, rural white women spent so much time together that they could finish each other's sentences without even seeming to notice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He practically screamed the last sentence and once again sent the crowd into a fit of near hysterics. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There was a voice in the back of his head whispering that they were going to slap another year onto his sentence, drop him into solitary, cut off his hands, cut off his head. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But Rita Skeeter had gone even further than transforming his “er’s” into long, sickly sentences: She had interviewed other people about him too. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mina has a way of talking so that sentences come out in a ripple, without pausing to take breaths. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

These are my main communications with my brother now, these raspy tin can words, sentences without vowels, the Morse of feet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

With one sentence he had lifted out of the silent dark the race question and I stood on the edge of a precipice. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know what it's like to not want to understand, so we're quiet while her last sentence spins and spins in my head. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes were gloriously intense as he uttered that last sentence, his voice smoldering. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Prisoners from the general section were often sentenced to isolation there and would use the same set of toilets we did, though at different times. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon was struggling to string words together to form a coherent sentence, let alone any kind of question. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the end, Dinath pulled enough strings to speed up his release and left after serving only four months of his two-year sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Daniel Taylor had been tried, sentenced to death for espionage, and hanged. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In no sense—no mechanical sense, at any rate—did the words and sentences look as though they had been written by a child. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The syntax can be defective, convoluted, ambiguous; these are flaws that can be prevented by an awareness of the treelike nature of a sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He could stage a little trial of his own, pass sentence, and mete it out, too. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Okay, I have another one. Complete the following sentence: We’re both in this room feeling. . .” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

As everyone got ready to leave for Temple Beth-El or Saint Adelbert’s, I figured I’d probably be diagramming sentences for the next hour and a half, since we hadn’t started another Shakespeare play yet. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“The shortest was a single sentence. The longest was a couple dozen pages. Some of them were almost like little plays. Others were just questions to the person he was writing to.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He left the sentence hanging, but there was no need to finish. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

This sentence is encumbered, among other things, by a long stretch between the filler of the relative clause, the former United Nations diplomat, and the gap after tapped seven words later. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Her voice is high and soft, and every sentence sounds like a question, even when she gives them my name and my mother’s name. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Suppose a reader has successfully parsed a sentence and now has an understanding of who did what to whom or what is true of what. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Categories, functions, and meanings have to be ascertained empirically, by running little experiments such as substituting a phrase whose category you don’t know for one you do know and seeing whether the sentence still works. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

At least from the outside, it seemed he was grasping for an option that avoided the risk of a longer sentence, and the lifelong stigma of conviction. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Many men in the general section had been sentenced without benefit of counsel, and a number of them sought me out to make an appeal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So sending him off to middle school like a lamb to the slaughter . . . ,” Dad answered angrily, but he didn’t even finish his sentence because he saw me in the mirror looking up. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I did not fully comprehend his English-laced Igbo sentences at dinner because my ears followed the sound and not the sense of his speech. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he gathered his wits, he realized that he had to ask her to stand again for sentencing. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We don’t know anything about this public hall or how a trial and sentencing works here. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

No sentence is an island; nor is a paragraph, a section, or a chapter. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Of course not. Very sensible of you both. After all, it wasn’t as though…” she stopped in the middle of her sentence, and dropped her bag. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had succumbed to these pressures by sentencing us to life and resisted them by not giving us death. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He froze for a bare moment, then finished scratching down the rest of the sentence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I will bear whatever sentence they wish to rain on me, all the volleys of their prayers and curses. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice gets a little louder with each sentence, and it makes her cough more. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The consistent string of sentence topics, all related to the column topic, forms a satisfying arc of coherence over the passage. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Not especially. So—” But before he could finish his sentence the rumble of the walls opening for the day cut him off. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I went inside and read a few more sentences of A Brief History of Time. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had about five words for things that most people had only one word for, and could use four of five in a single sentence. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every sentence, every word, was new to them and they listened to what he said like bright-eyed ravens, trembling in their eagerness to catch and interpret every sound in the universe. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This time I was the closest person,” she finished my sentence. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I tried to find an end to my sentence; my voice faltered to a stop. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Florent opened to a dog-eared page where Joseph had underlined a sentence and written the translation in the margin. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The double entendres, the two-pronged sentences, slid over his tongue to dart rapier-like into anything that happened to be in the way. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only two states—Maine and Vermont—permit people to vote while serving sentences behind bars. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Just one-third of white youths were sentenced to adult or juvenile state correctional facilities in 2012, while two-thirds were given probation or sentenced to serve time in county jails. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They sentenced him to an additional five years. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He is serving the tenth year of a life sentence. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But now you face a major difference between the syntactic tree of a sentence and the outline tree of a text. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Teachers need a simple way to teach them how to break sentences, so they tell them that sentences beginning with and and other conjunctions are ungrammatical. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

TOMBSTONE: It’s wrong to end a sentence with a preposition. r.i.p. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the sentencing, however, Ray recanted his guilty plea. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the rest of the walk dissecting sentence structures and most of Spanish on a minute description of Mike’s facial expressions. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I can’t— His sentence was cut short by a sudden series of shouts and commotion outside the entrance through which the woman had come. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He was taken into custody shortly after Booth was killed and spent seven weeks in the Old Capitol Prison in were all given life sentences for their roles in the assassination conspiracy. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

But Paul, who was referred to as the ringleader, and the other woman who had been repeatedly arrested were sentenced to a surprising seven months in jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The word means almost the same as it did in the previous sentence, but not quite. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“This blatant use of high-level magic by incompetent Witchlings is basis for a sentence to the Tombs for these Spares. Either the Witchlings go, or the Gran does. There can be no other alternative.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She stopped in the middle of the sentence, turning her head slightly, listening for something. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, Mrs. Baker called us to the blackboard to try our hand at it Here’s the sentence she gave to Meryl Lee: The brook flows down the pretty mountain. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The sentence in the case of all the accused will be one of life imprisonment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a copy of the trial transcript and took Ralph through every sentence of his testimony against Walter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I argued two cases at the Mississippi Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the convictions and sentences of young children were illegal. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“If you’re going to insult me, you can shove this—” She lifted the cue in the air and made an obscene gesture that finished her sentence. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

What the upstate union rep had told me years earlier about an officer’s career amounting to “a life sentence in eight-hour shifts” seemed to be encapsulated in that big red-bound ledger. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or this last sentence in the article: “One thing is sure: the kids at Lincoln Elementary School love their frindles, and no one seems to be backing off in this war of the words.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We only have five minutes left until the bell rings, and we still don’t know what to do with the hidden sentence. Quick”—Emily nudged James—“ask Raven about that.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And then fly off, through half a sentence, to her mother’s old petticoat. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

No wonder the verb is often the most interesting word in a sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you’re doing the talking or writing, the scrambled sentence isn’t so amusing. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we were sentenced to death, what would then happen? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Convention was too strong for me though, nor did I know how I should frame my sentence. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

After eighteen sentences that mix wistful nostalgia with abstract philosophizing, the reverie is punctured by a stark revelation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was a sentence that I liked saying very much, so I said it again. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He must have been sentenced in a different courtroom and he arrived after me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

They would whisper sentences of this sort at my bedside— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The judge declared that he was sentencing them to the penitentiary for the “period of your natural lives.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I had said just one short sentence too many. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went down the hall to Mr. Carter's courtroom and had another success, winning a new sentence that meant that he, too, would be released immediately. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He said from the bench, “The Court believes that to sentence Mr. Angelos to prison for the rest of his life is unjust, cruel, and even irrational.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For several minutes no one spoke an understandable sentence, which added greatly to the confusion. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In short, the boy has had a death sentence pronounced upon him as surely as I have,” said Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Anatole translated the rage of a village into one quiet sentence that could pin a strong-willed man to the ground. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teacher Zhang moved his homemade bamboo pointer slowly along these sentences. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sighed in the candlelight and erased the last sentence. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newt had barely finished his sentence when a sudden, piercing scream ripped through the air. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Defendants are typically denied meaningful legal representation, pressured by the threat of a lengthy sentence into a plea bargain, and then placed under formal control—in prison or jail, on probation or parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

According to a printout in Cradle’s office, he was the block’s longest-term keeplock, having spent the past seventeen months in his cell, with three more to go, a sentence within a sentence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s against the law to bark without using the barking meter. Are you ready to be sentenced?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was sentenced to prison for twenty years. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The short businesslike sentences became interlarded and adulterated with screaming and emphatic profanity, but the cold, calling voice repeated and repeated and repeated unwearyingly. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Luke read a sentence at random: “While debate continues over the carrying capacity of the earth—” He skipped ahead. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She could see the simple sentences, the accumulating telepathic symbols, unfurling at the nibs end. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Especially after we just heard the news about our sentences. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Number of people currently serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for crimes committed as juveniles: 2,570. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My next sentence, however, she will not be able to mind-read. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Jónsson realized that releasing him would be a death sentence, so he kept making excuses to keep Bobby in the hospital, trying to keep him comfortable as long as he could. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There’s something to do with them, something like a sentence in tiny dry print on a page, flattened out, like the dates of ancient battles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The unfinished sentence stays with me all night. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The part you omit— forget Paris—is now at the end of the sentence and won't be missed. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If what comes after the colon is a complete sentence, you may start it with a capital or a lowercase letter. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many sentences that are built around all.. . not face backward. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is there any statement you wish to make before sentence is passed upon you?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

All seven faced long prison sentences—but only for the Watergate break-in. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Almost forty of the one hundred participants were arrested and taken to court, where the judge began sentencing the women to the District Jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There’s no law against occasionally using and or but to begin a sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched her wide full mouth sweep through her sentences like a figure touring a dark house, flipping on spots and banks of perfectly drawn light. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like reading a seemingly random collection of words before the sentence becomes clear. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why share it with only the two Daniels, who were with me in the office awaiting sentence for our spitball war, when there was a perfectly good microphone a few feet away, unattended and live. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

But they also ran a study in which almost every sentence referred to a concrete object or action: A newspaper is better than a magazine. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

We had created a new community of formerly condemned prisoners in Alabama who had been illegally convicted or sentenced and received new trials or sentencing hearings. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They studied vocabulary words, drilled on how to write sentences, and practiced taking multiple-choice tests. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If he received a life sentence, he’d be eligible to go before the parole board in seven years. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I’ve heard them talk in the halls and they finish each other’s sentences. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

But after two days’ testimony, the new jury—again entirely white—took only thirty-four minutes to restore Reeves’s death sentence. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Unfusing a participle can make a sentence clumsy or pretentious: Any alleged evils of capitalism are simply the result of people’s being free to choose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Stay away from this kind of sentence: Opie’s math is as bad or worse than his English. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prosecutors yesterday confirmed they will appeal the “unduly lenient” sentence of a motorist who escaped prison after being convicted for the second time of killing a cyclist. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

By refusing to work in the prison’s basket-weaving shop, Osborne got himself sentenced to a night in the “jail”—a barely lit room between Auburn’s Death Row and its generator that contained eight metal cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Writing with confidence. Take your first two sentences: ‘I thought I knew home was a place. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

One of Bunny’s favorite ways to start a sentence had been to let drop, quite casually: “When Dad was lunching with Paul Vanderfeller the other day...” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You know how I had a lot of problems with starting and stopping my sentences before?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The commission sentenced Alfons to restriction to his town limits for a period of two years, six months’ expulsion from college, and one month of hard labor. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Black defendant and white victim pairings increased the likelihood of a death sentence even more. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The death penalty can be imposed fairly only after carefully considering all the reasons why death might not be the appropriate sentence, and that didn't happen in Herbert's case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Before the sentencing, Judge Hunt asked Anthony if she had anything to say about why she should not be required to serve her sentence. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Following the oral argument, I still had hope that the court would overturn the conviction and sentence because it was so clearly unsupported by reliable facts. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the full stop is surely the simplest mark to understand - so long as everyone continues to have some idea what a sentence is, which is a condition that can’t be guaranteed. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

I’d never experienced anything like it: crushing pain between my temples—pain so severe that it was accompanied by shuddering waves of nausea and made it impossible for me to speak in coherent sentences. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And then there were all the people James mentioned in one sentence—a great-grandmother, auntie, cousins—all right here, nearby? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As the sentence is written, Dad was only a boy! Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no word in classical Greek or Latin for a fact, and no way of translating the sentences above from the OED into these languages. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I never thought that a life sentence truly meant life and that I would die behind bars. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or else wait until our sentence was over. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Reggie could take a sentence that ranged up to ninety days in jail and included community service. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was sentenced to 5 to 10 years for grand larceny, burglary and jailbreak. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

About this last there was only one brief sentence. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

His paper is blank except for its title and opening sentence. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the second sentence were wondering about where here is. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It’s one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they’re the four hugest words in the world when they’re put together. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It meant that every sentence, he automatically said “Nike.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prendergast filled the postcard from top margin to bottom, from edge to edge, with little regard for whether the sentences formed level lines or not. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment for crimes against humanity. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even the shortest sentence, three years, was more than I could imagine. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Now one of the church bombers has been arrested, tried, and sentenced to prison, I thought. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In August 1944, Dickinson was sentenced to ten years of jail time. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As the sentence stands, the opening word, miraculously, refers to the watching, not the operating. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Legions of people think of rather stiff sentences—None of Dempsey’s teeth was chipped, or None ofTunney’s fingers was broken—as grammatically correct. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sentenced to nine months of hard labor and sent immediately to a prison in the northern part of the state. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The judge accepted Joe’s guilty plea, but asked to see medical and psychiatric reports before deciding his sentence. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

While these reforms were desperately needed, deinstitutionalization intersected with the spread of mass imprisonment policies—expanding criminal statutes and harsh sentencing—to disastrous effect. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We presented participants with a sentence, followed by the word true or FALSE. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

"You'll both be sentenced on the same day," she said harshly. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

After the sentencing, Commander Jameson doesn't let her soldiers take me back to my cell. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Communication with the outside world was accomplished in two ways: through prisoners whose sentences were completed and who were leaving the island, and through contact with visitors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helmuth collapsed when he heard the sentence, but the guards yanked him to his feet. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Every time Mrs. V would add new words, I learned them quickly, used them in sentences, and was hungry for more. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

For speech is so much more than words and sentences. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wished she could hear Immie’s low laugh and her run-on sentences spilling out secrets. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Presumably Bill Clinton, who uttered the first sentence while running for president in 1992, would never have said Give I a chance, because a noun phrase next to a transitive verb is obviously accusative. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Emma tapped the sentence that began Tell them..., and Chess went silent. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Here were four kids who could speak in complete sentences without a single you-know as filler, and Holly Blackwell asked them nothing. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Silence filled the lodge hall after she had read this sentence. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s simple reading comprehension. Read the paragraph and summarize, in a couple of sentences, what it was about. That’s it. It’s not rocket science.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Like a question mark that drifted through the pages of a book and never settled at the end of a sentence. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the first three sentences, nothing in the rest of the letter made any sense. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

For others, it was an indeterminate sentence of months or years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, states need to repeal mandatory sentencing laws for drug offenses. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One have is enough, though it can go with whichever half of the sentence you want to emphasize: I would have liked to go, or I would like to have gone. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their death-in-prison sentences were insulated from legal challenges or appeals by a maze of procedural rules, statutes of limitations, and legal barricades designed to make successful postconviction challenges almost impossible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Topic sentences are the sentences at the beginning of each paragraph that say what you’re going to write about. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Only then did the meaning of the sentence before her start to sink in: How much do you know about alternate worlds? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Evidence of her guilt was conflicting, but she was found guilty of conspiracy in the president’s murder and sentenced to hang. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And then I recite the words I learned as soon as I could put sentences together. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the article, a single sentence caught Mrs. Richardson’s eye: “Ms. Chow had been informed of her daughter’s whereabouts by a coworker at Lucky Palace, a Chinese restaurant on Warrensville Road.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The rule is the same if the sentence is turned around so the after part comes first: After the guests arrive, I will have started dinner. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gathered my energies and launched them in this blunt sentence— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Here are some cases where adding that can rescue a drowning sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we shall see, many omissible words earn their keep by preventing the reader from making a wrong turn as she navigates her way through the sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“That,” Colin said emphatically, “is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He strategically slips in a passive sentence: One hungry heron was seen, as opposed to Birdwatchers saw one hungry heron. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Papa never said more than three or four sentences about his nine months at Fort Lincoln. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years, some English teachers have enforced the notion that conjunctions like and and but should be used only to join elements within a sentence, not to join one sentence with another. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The professor called on me, and I read the sentence aloud. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"I don't have an extra pen," I whispered, complete sentences for whispers, that's what tells you I was still a greenhorn in this culture. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My sentence would go trailing off into nothing, but the meaning would be understood. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At sentencing, the judge based the drug quantity calculation on testimony from the informant and another witness, who both claimed they bought crack from Marcus on other occasions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He finished it in two days and started again, rolling the words round his tongue, memorizing some sentences: The slaves became as fearful of the tar as of the lash. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even if every sentence in a text is crisp, lucid, and well formed, a succession of them can feel choppy, disjointed, unfocused—in a word, incoherent. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

That sentence in turn belongs to a clause which spells out the content of the noun view. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Your son has been charged with simple battery and a petty misdemeanor. His sentence is thirty days in detention or full payment of the fine, which is three hundred dollars.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A sentence of death might already rest upon my head. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

October 15: Four women were arrested; two received suspended sentences, and two repeat offenders were sentenced to six months in the workhouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

These are more precise versions of the Strunkian advice to “put the emphatic words of a sentence at the end.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was easier to smoke joints and have someone deliver drinks than it was for me to deliver sentences. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing much to punctuating a sentence, really, beyond a little comma sense. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few minutes, Jason and Percy were sitting up in their berths and able to talk in complete sentences. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

James knew from keyboarding class that the sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” used every letter in the alphabet, so they made that their cipher key. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Once Petra remembered Fort’s sentence We shall pick up an existence by its frogs, she pointed out to Calder that perhaps it had been some kind of strange clue. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A sentence Etienne once read aloud returns: Even the heart, which in higher animals, when agitated, pulsates with increased energy, in the snail under similar excitement, throbs with a slower motion. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A man does his time, keeps his nose clean, doesn't get into trouble, and is released when either his sentence runs out or the parole board gives him a date. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

People who listened and told others what they heard were sentenced to death. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was from my youngest son, Makgatho, and it was only a sentence long. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, they are. Look at the next sentence. We need a dative.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A restrictive relative clause is essential to the meaning of the sentence, often because it pinpoints the referent of the noun from among a set of alternatives. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Yet in 1995, a few brave souls challenged the implementation of Georgia’s “two strikes and you’re out” sentencing scheme, which imposes life imprisonment for a second drug offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The primary lifeline between an incoming sentence and a reader’s web of knowledge is the topic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But Ivy wasn’t sure how to finish that sentence. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then he reread the narrative of what I’d done, turning to me every few sentences to ask “Is that correct?” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

But Faith just reached for the door and it looked like she was going to close it and that had me spewing frantic words all over her until finally I managed one clear, crisp sentence. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

That’s because the reader’s attention usually starts out on the entity named by the subject of the sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Stella’s eyes flashed as she finished her mother’s sentence. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

No matter how long the sentence, on the day of her release Mabel, as surely as tigers devour flesh, would still be around. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was there that he met Ronnie York, who was also under sentence for having gone AWOL. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first reaction to reading a sentence on the right is, “Who would ever have thought it was?” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Did the City Clerk, who verified Mr. Evans's testimony, get a break in sentencing? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

My staff and I discussed how we might use the constitutional reasoning that banned the execution of children as a legal basis for challenging juvenile life-without-parole sentences. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Conviction rates declined during the 1960s, and criminals who were convicted served shorter sentences. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The Supreme Court's Eighth Amendment precedent requires not only that a particular sentence offend “evolving standards of decency" but also that it be “unusual." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Or how a word had to be changed depending on the sentence. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain made it difficult for him to focus; he could hardly get through a sentence before his mind surrendered to it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On the vertical faces of the steps, I see words that form a sentence. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I was embarrassed before the sentence was even finished. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Which means the room where I’m serving my sentence is hot and sticky. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The ruling invalidated Walter’s conviction and death sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

While waiting or serving his sentence, he’d probably get infected with TB—it was estimated that 80 percent of all Russian prisoners had bacilli in their bodies. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But those words should be fitted into new sentences that work together as a coherent passage of prose in its own right. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It’s been common practice to begin sentences with conjunctions since at least as far back as the tenth century. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His run-on sentences throbbed with anger and hatred. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or you could switch two sentences around, or begin one of them differently. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the effort of speaking a few sentences had exhausted him. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are two ways to fix a sentence like this. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was a really long sentence, wasn’t it? Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Music spirals out of the radios, and it is splendid to drowse on the davenport, to be warm and fed, to feel the sentences hoist her up and carry her somewhere else. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The bell for lunch rings, and Missus Wilhelmina slowly finishes her sentence, to remind us that we aren’t allowed to leave until she dismisses us from class herself. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

First of all, Bill gave me a C on my To Kill a Mockingbird essay because he said that I run my sentences together. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t go on to the next sentence until the prior sentence was perfectly clear in his mind. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Emma felt this sentence would give people “an opening to say, however unjustly, that he considered all spiritual beliefs no higher than hereditary aversions or likings, such as the fear of monkeys towards snakes.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This can keep the reader off balance, luring her into wrong guesses about a sentence’s structure. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Antonio Nuñez's judge in Orange County, California, replaced his sentence of life imprisonment without parole with a sentence of 175 years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She reads it and her eyes widen with each sentence. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Literate readers rely on punctuation to guide them through a sentence, and mastering the basics is a nonnegotiable requirement for anyone who writes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I want you to make a grammatical four-word sentence as quickly as possible out of each set. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“And to think you were forced to spend so much time in his company. I’m amazed he didn’t kill you in your sleep. I’m—” Thomas pauses, then decides against finishing his sentence. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I’ve opened it a few times and tried to read the first couple sentences, but my mind keeps going right back to how hungry I am. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He just waves his hand without finishing the sentence. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Well, when my father got through with that sentence where the wedding was sandwiched between the ministers’ meeting and the treasury whatever, I said, ‘You read that wrong.’ The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The total ban on life-without-parole sentences for children convicted of non-homicides should have been the easiest decision to implement, but enforcing the Supreme Court's ruling was proving much more difficult than I had hoped. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He can talk, but only in very short sentences that usually have two parts. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

For example, take this sentence about Mrs. Granger: “Mrs. Granger, champion of the forces of order and authority, is battling hundreds of young frindle-fighters. Neither side is giving in.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She yelled, punctuated most sentences with a raspy, high-pitched laugh, and maintained a running commentary on everything around her: “Look at the size of those trees!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If a sentence has other verbs in the past tense, use only might. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scores of innocent people have been exonerated after being sentenced to death and nearly executed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Authenticated? It was signed by the judge who sentenced him." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Skeet and Hadari were sentenced to out-of-home placement and sent to group homes, where they would have to complete formal treatment programs before returning to their families. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“We’ll just have to take that chance,”said Miss K. “Now please settle down and finish those spelling sentences.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

More than once, he actually fell asleep in the middle of a sentence. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Many weren't included in the conversations about whether a plea bargain was acceptable or what sentence was appropriate. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The public will judge this sentence based only on the media—very few of the public will do anything to educate themselves about this problem.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Marie stopped in the middle of a sentence and stared at him. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fundamental problem lay in the fact that he had felt compelled to throw that word “individual” into the sentence. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Black defendants, like McCleskey, who killed white victims had the highest chance of being sentenced to death in Georgia. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I guess the juvenile court didn’t want kids feeling like they were real criminals with a trial and a sentencing by someone called a judge. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Because some of the women who were arrested were well-connected, the sentence was especially shocking and caused outrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There are no red marks on my carefully chosen words and sentences and quotes from books on Chantal’s shelves and from the internet. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Ask an Asian child to add three-tens- seven and two-tens-two, and then the necessary equation is right there, embedded in the sentence. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A straightforward sentence that states rather than asks or exclaims something starts with a capital letter and ends with a period. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just twenty-four hours since I had been sentenced and I knew I was in way over my head. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

There were cards that required you to play an air guitar solo, speak like an English-dubbed anime character, eat leaves like a giraffe, engage in staring contests, and end every sentence with the word dawg. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

After the word store, Mr. Goosby took it on himself to hit the big drum—and kept hitting it every time Grandpa finished a sentence. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In accordance with the sentence of the court, Smith and Hickock were scheduled to visit the warehouse six weeks hence: at one minute after midnight on Friday, May 13, i960. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Terryl was miffed that Kaylene was thinking about suggesting to the judge a lesser sentence than she and the prosecutors wanted. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Over two thousand condemned people sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for crimes when they were children were now potentially eligible for relief and reduced sentences. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Here are a couple of tips on simplifying a sentence: • Extra information inserted between subject and verb doesn’t alter the verb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom’s next sentence is ‘We all came from an alternate world, and I had to go back,’” she announced. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He chants one sentence to himself, over and over, as he rides north: “It could have been me.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Next, consider the structure of the critical sentence. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes, yes, I’m—” And before she could finish her sentence, the sentence that would’ve explained that she had tripped and fell over me, the cop cut her off. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Once in a while you may need a brief side trip, a gentle interruption to tuck information into a sentence or between sentences. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Can any of you read the whole sentence?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

And maybe it’s because of that underlying goodness that he can move a crowd—no, a country—to his side with the turn of a simple sentence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

How they managed to reduce sentences in the Pittman case, which was outside their jurisdiction in another county, was another anomaly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Given that the sentence allows the court a pretty fair amount of discretion, I do not take your words lightly,” Judge Delucchi said. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My back stood straight, and my sentences now ended with “sir” or “ma’am.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Seeing me, she roused herself: she made a sort of effort to smile, and framed a few words of congratulation; but the smile expired, and the sentence was abandoned unfinished. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sentences for each charge can run consecutively, so a defendant can easily face a sentence of fifty, seventy-five, or one hundred years to life arising from a single case. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In a packed courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia, the judge sentenced Ames to life in prison, without the possibility of parole. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe, for a first offense, the required number of lashes has been dispensed, sir. Unless your sentence is death, which we would carry out by firing squad.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But at the end of his scientific articles, there was always a plaintive sentence about how much more hands-on, real-world research needed to be done before the decision tree could be used in clinical practice. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The judge sentenced him to ninety-nine years in prison. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Recall the example from chapter 2 in which a psychologist showed people sentences, followed by the label true or false. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The verdict came down on Friday, August 19: As his family looked on, the court found Francis Gary Powers guilty of "criminal acts" against the Soviet people and sentenced him to ten years in prison. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The children tried desperately to read it, but there were no letters, no words, no sentences, just random, disconnected markings. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I shall never be able to speak one lucid sentence to him again. “—happened all right,” Henry was saying. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I know that this sentence is rarely followed by good things. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Before sentencing, I informed the court that whatever sentence the state imposed, it would do nothing to change my devotion to the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I read the last sentence, he made a muted clapping sound with his hands. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The prison’s most famous warden, Lewis Lawes, called his memoir Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing—the number referred to the sum of the length of sentences of all the inmates under his supervision. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Byrd looks back to the wall, like the rest of her sentence might be found splattered against it. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He spoke every sentence as if he’d written it down, memorized it, and was now reciting it. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

If you didn’t have a death sentence, he decided, then prison was, at best, only a temporary reprieve from life, for two reasons. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And in imagination she saw the judge's old hands put the black cap on his head and begin to pronounce sentence…. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Two armorers from the 588th Regiment were sentenced to ten years in prison because they’d taken little parachutes off unused flares and made silk panties out of them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I ought to scratch my name here, too, she thought, just in case...but she was careful not to think her way to the end of that sentence. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I estimated the hush that might follow my opening sentence and felt my future listeners leaning forward, just slightly, in their seats. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He was arrested on federal charges in 1983 and sentenced to life in prison two years later. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Singer took back the note and wrote a few additional sentences. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As he walked he thought of ways to begin his letter, but he had already reached the store before the first sentence was clear in his mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before the sentence was out, Trotter was filling the doorway like the wrath of God Almighty. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She hunkered down and quickly rearranged the stones to construct a different sentence. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Even the “ah” that Klotz inserts between the two halves of his sentence serves to undercut the importance of what he is saying. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It’s just something to pass the time as I wait for my sentence from Tris, as I wait for our plan to strike the Bureau to come together, as I wait for something, anything. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

My heart was racing as I read each sentence. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of children like them scattered throughout prisons in the United States—children who had been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole or other extreme sentences. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Aunty Onenu liked to say, “Most of my staff are foreign graduates while that woman at Glass hires riffraff who cannot punctuate sentences!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She could slice you to slivers with one sentence. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He cried when they read the sentence from the pad of paper, and they were questioning another when they shot him. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She stared in shock as she finished her sentence. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Pennsylvania sentencing law was inflexible: For those convicted of second-degree murder, mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole was the only sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are shining and she’s smiling at the end of every sentence. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing, Mama…” The sentence died before he could add any more. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like it... when people doubt my words,” Jed said, his tone changing drastically in the middle of his sentence. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When it comes to improving the clarity of a sentence, you can nearly always argue that one should go in; you can nearly always argue that one should come out. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

For that matter, he did not say um, or ah, or use any form of conversational mitigation: his sentences came marching out, one after another, polished and crisp, like soldiers on a parade ground. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Fate sentenced Our Father to pay for those lives with the remainder of his, and he has spent it posturing desperately beneath the eyes of a God who will not forgive a debt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says a sentence in Spanish and puts the back of her hand to her forehead. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Pettigrew had fallen to his knees as though Harry’s nod had been his own death sentence. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But Ms. Bethune’s next sentence hit him like a bucket of cold water. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I accidentally bend the card, forming a crease down the middle as I read and reread these three sentences. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

For example, a conviction for selling a kilogram of heroin yields a mandatory ten-year sentence in U.S. federal court, compared with six months in prison in England. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But before he could form a sentence, the boy collapsed to the ground. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A poorly written sentence was a poorly conceived idea, and in his view the grammatical logic was as much in need of correction. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mandatory sentencing laws are frequently justified as necessary to keep “violent criminals” off the streets, yet those penalties are imposed most often against people who are guilty of nonviolent crimes and drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I would get through my self-imposed sentence here in purgatory, and then hopefully some school in the Southwest, or possibly Hawaii, would offer me a scholarship. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The atmosphere at the time was extremely grim, with newspapers routinely speculating that we would receive the death sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were halfway to the end of the field before she could finish her sentence. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

In fact, fifty years to life was the actual sentence given to Leandro Andrade for stealing videotapes, a sentence upheld by the Supreme Court. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So every time a writer adds a word to a sentence, he is imposing not one but two cognitive demands on the reader: understanding the word, and fitting it into the tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Monday night’s homework always took forever, because the spelling words were also vocabulary words, and Ms. Udell insisted that each student write an official dictionary definition of each word before using it in a sentence. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

But in that one sentence, Dorian made his mistake, and he knew that his father had found his new weak spot: the overwhelming terror that Celaena would be ripped from him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t get to finish my sentence because Mom comes back in. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

At his sentencing for treason in a London courtroom, George Blake was given one year in prison for each of the British agents he was known to have betrayed to the Soviet Union: forty-two. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, Carolina didn’t talk much at all, but when she did open her mouth it seemed sentences never emerged, only aphorisms, called “dichos.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judge sentenced Alger Hiss to five years in prison. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The startled girl pulled each statement out as if it were a rare gift to be examined, breathing deeply after every sentence. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scarcely dared I answer her; for I feared the next sentence might be rough. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I find that he has never demanded the death sentence in his closing speeches to the jury. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

How can a writer reconcile these irreconcilable demands about where the words should go in a sentence? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Unwilling to risk a trial and years of imprisonment, you are sentenced to ten years’ probation and ordered to pay $1,000 in fines, as well as court and probation costs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The requests poured in for Reggie to talk publicly, and even though his sentence was complete, he said yes, over and over. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We challenged her conviction and sentence and ultimately won her release. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The authorities insisted that once Hale and his conspirators were given life sentences, they’d found the guilty parties. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m just ...” I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

If Mobutu is capable of embarrassment at all, there’s a chance his sentence could be reduced from life to five years, or less. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gun violence with no reported injuries frequently result in sentences of less than ten years for adult defendants, even in this era of harsh punishments. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Some writing manuals will tell you to write short sentences, or to cut out adjectives and adverbs. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem to censor herself or craft her sentences. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After doing time for assault in Alabama, where he grew up, and a second sentence for weapons possession, he had been in New York, dating a woman who was also dating a CO. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he could finish the sentence and catch up with her, she was swinging the door to the girls’ room right at his nose. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I pause after each sentence and try to count more words. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I ended up gettin’ my license revoked until I’m twenty-one, and a two-year suspended sentence. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I should like to hear you really talk, my dear. When you talk to me you never finish your sentences at all." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

In the state of Washington, for example, a review of juvenile sentencing reports found that prosecutors routinely described black and white youth differently. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We met with the district attorney, filed papers with the judge, and consulted with a variety of local officials in an effort to achieve a new, constitutionally acceptable sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But there’s a long tradition, going back at least to the sixteenth century, of using while at the head of a sentence to mean “although” or “whereas”: While he may be short, he’s wiry. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children tried desperately to read it, but there were no letters, no words, no sentences, just random, disconnected markings. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It must be a very odd sensation to come to a courtroom to see whether or not your son will be sentenced to death. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She allows her character to believe the lie. Her voice has so many tones to it. She can be seductive and naive all in one sentence.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Nico pauses after each sentence, as if to check that I’m still listening. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

When we decided to challenge death-in-prison sentences imposed on children, I told her we might be able to finally challenge her sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And just when he finished his sentence, here came Winn-Dixie again, running to save his life. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

With their loose sentence structure and the melodic give and take allowing a team approach to conversation I knew they were Guyanese. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She never finished the sentence, even in her mind, but the old anxiety snaked through her veins. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had no illusions about the sentence I would receive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Court prohibited jurors from hearing “victim impact” statements because they were too inflammatory and introduced arbitrariness into the capital sentencing process. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Here’s a rule: Never write a sentence of the form “X not Y because Z,” such as Dave is not evil because he did what he was told. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was sentenced to walk fifty-seven punishment tours. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The charges are in the general nature of treason, which is to say anti-Mobutism, and the most likely sentence will be life imprisonment, though there are other possibilities. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face reddened slightly, and his little round mouth worked a bit on the next sentence. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s the kind of sentence I mean: They never have and never will forget Paris. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One woman brags that she can read and write upside down and backward, and that when she writes with her right hand, her left hand can follow along and write the same sentence backward. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

After all, the statement was coming from a crook seeking to shorten his sentence, and Spencer, the one person who could corroborate Gregg’s testimony, had since been gunned down by a posse of lawmen. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My eyes landed on the first sentence in the final paragraph. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe his lover was already sentenced to death and he was trying to make it easier. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I read the description and the first sentence or two. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He drove home every sentence with another shake of the cage. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s not so bad. There’s always a bunch of my friends there. I’ve written that sentence six hundred times now.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

With every sentence, kids are happier and I feel smaller and smaller. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

We set a land-speed record getting from that night to sentencing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I remembered that first night back at the pad after the judge said my sentence. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

By the way Sam was hesitating as he moved through that sentence, I could tell his mother was coaching him on the other end. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She ended every sentence she spoke to his uncles with “sir.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

New York and California are just beginning to give first-time drug offenders treatment instead of prison sentences, and that’s a positive development. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The state made a plea offer of twenty years, but it was never adequately communicated to Mr. Dill, so he went to trial, was convicted, and was sentenced to death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Under the terms of the deal, Richard’s sentence could still be reduced to five years—if he successfully jumped through a series of hoops. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But Walter, Govan, and I wanted to discuss the mechanics of the sentencing procedure the next day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean to sound hostile, but my voice catches at the end of the sentence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It just means that the sentence is over.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

My sentences will dwindle, darn, steadily unravel themselves. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a beautiful way of speaking—sentences and whole paragraphs just seemed to flow extemporaneously, organically. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Moreover, I could not refrain from adding a sentence saying that I had just devised a beautiful DNA structure which was completely different from Pauling’s. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I sense them urging me to do well, to sit up straight and answer in complete sentences. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I avoid looking at the dog that might be sentenced to death. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had been listening and silently rebutting each sentence with my eyes closed; then there was a hush, which in an audience warns that something unplanned is happening. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the grace of God, the courts sentenced me to spend the next year in rehab. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Court deemed the risk of racial bias in Georgia’s capital sentencing scheme “constitutionally acceptable.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He frequently paced the length of the gym, wrote so often in his notebook that he had to get a new one, and would occasionally start his sentences in the middle of a thought. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

"I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He practiced several sentences: “My name is Matt. I live here. Do you want to color pictures?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consider the sentence So there I stood, still as a glazed dog. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

If the sentence continues after the question, don’t use a comma after the question mark. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to string these new words with the old ones in sentences, but she had no more success than a blind man threading beads. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The death sentence is mandatory in this case. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a lot to take in, but I find myself rereading the sentence: The only problem is that at my Choosing Ceremony next year I’ll have to join Erudite, because that’s where the killer is. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

For sentences that have been repeated verbatim in questionnaires over the decades, the rate of acceptance has increased over time. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The sentence that holds his name is the particular one that has incensed M. Lefèvre to the point of knife throwing. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Of course there’s hope! I mean, of course I won’t . . .” He left the sentence hanging. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“And there’s going to be a public trial and sentencing this weekend. On Saturday,” the leader continued. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Before then, Reggie would meet with a probation officer who would help suggest a sentence to the judge. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It said the state was going to increase funding for the entire program, which would affect the sentence lengths of both current and future residents. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

If we used only one verb per sentence, we'd never have trouble choosing the tense—past, present, future, or whatever: They waltzed. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Corporal Grub took a breath, possibly to utter a sentence containing the word Mommy. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

From the loam of Jutta’s memory rises a sentence: What I want to write about today is the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I did seventeen years, two days, four hours and twenty minutes on a twenty-year sentence as a third striker,” he explained in an interview posted on the Ella Baker Center’s website. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the Continental Congress, John Adams had described him as a staunch advocate of independence who never uttered more than two or three sentences, even in committees. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe you just did that. Use Allah and blackmail in the same sentence. You suck.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It startles me that the words brave and crepe are in the same sentence. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

We spent the afternoon with English for You and Me, learning how to diagram sentences—as if there was some reason why anyone in the Western Hemisphere needed to know how to do this. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

After the first one, which they had interrupted every third sentence with questions, they were an attentive audience, and silent except for their frequent loud sighs and Esther’s nervous laughter at all the wrong moments. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace wasn’t sure when she had stopped forming complete sentences. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Sonya was immediately arrested by her own people, interrogated for treason, and sentenced to be shot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He was the only one who knew how to read or carry on a conversation more than three sentences long. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Translating many words and sentences, I also write about the Arabic language. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I explained that condemning children violates international law, which bans these sentences for children. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I had to go back to an appellate court in California and argue to get that sentence replaced with a reasonable sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But he still got sentenced to a hundred and seventy-five years.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

As for Carla’s letters to me, a messy censor must read them because the envelopes come torn and taped, with whole sentences sometimes blocked out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

At some point, and Maya wasn’t sure when, their conversations had gone from riotous giggles to whispered secrets to short sentences, and then just one- or two-word responses. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The technical term for them is sentence adverbs. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only after laying a semblance of it on the page can a writer free up the cognitive resources needed to make the sentence grammatical, graceful, and, most important, transparent to the reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But if either evaluation had a black mark on it, the seven-year sentence would stand. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A black woman and a white man were sentenced to a year in prison for marrying each other. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Though the sentence may be beyond salvation, passivizing the relative clause would be a place to start: the former United Nations diplomat who has been tapped by protesters demanding Mr. Morsi’s ouster. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He would say, in the middle of writing a sentence, “I am afraid I must leave off now” And it would be time for a rest. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, the sentence was clear: “...is the most fundamental—and yet least understood—element of the known universe.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They were only a sentence long, each one of them. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were about fifteen children sitting at desks scattered around the room, busy writing out their one hundred sentences. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

President Snow has been tried and found guilty, sentenced to execution. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Coming within strangling distance of the Crown Prince of Adarlan, son of the man who sentenced her to a slow, miserable death, her self-control balanced on a fragile edge—dancing along a cliff. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A witness’s age helps the court to weigh her testimony and influences sentencing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will not swear, reader, that there was not something of repressed sarcasm both in the tone in which I uttered this sentence, and in the feeling that accompanied it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

They tried the sentence again, reading together out loud: “‘For the most wild yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.’” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My sentences tangled and twisted together, every word I said had my father looking more startled and more confused, until finally I just pulled the list from my drawer and shoved it into his hands. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She raises her voice for the last sentence, and I am surprised by how well it carries over the space. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And there were guys in prison clothes who hadn't made bail after their arrest and were now awaiting sentencing. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is approximately seventeen months. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zakariyya was out of prison after serving only seven of his fifteen- year sentence. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Is anything wrong with the sentences on the left? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

After sentencing, Paul wrote a letter home: “Dear Mother: I have been sentenced today to seven months imprisonment. Please do not worry. It will merely be a delightful rest. With love, Alice.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I caught one sentence and it gave me shivers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After communicating with Ian for several years, Baigre wrote the court and told the judge who sentenced Ian of her conviction that his sentence was too harsh and that his conditions of confinement were inhumane. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And then, at the end, was that sentence her mother had underlined: “The knowledge will change him.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in six months, Bunderson hoped, the judge would allow Reggie to be done with his sentence and have his record cleared. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was to discover that I was living in a rare moment when a personality becomes so interlocked with the era that it can’t be spoken of in different sentences. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Because Mr. Wise says I have a thing about sentence fragments. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I wrote everything down, at first in choppy fragments; a sentence here, a few words there, it was the most I could stand at the time. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her Arabic teacher on the kindergarten floor hit a short stick on the back of a chair for rhythm, teaching the little ones another useless sentence. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I swear, that’s as far as I got. I never finished the sentence. She guessed it.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“I thought they’d—I thought you might be—” He found he couldn’t finish any of those sentences. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Simmon finished my sentence. “.. . brilliant. And not that young if you consider that he was admitted to the University when he was barely fourteen.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He sent a car, made me meet him at a hotel, got me drunk. He wanted—he tried to—” Luna grimaces away from finishing the sentence. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But our sentence of confinement was suddenly forgotten when the tiny people I thought lived inside the radio set announced a list of names approved for return to Ramallah. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

We decided to publish a report to draw attention to the plight of children in the United States who had been sentenced to die in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I can. And I’m kind of hoping I get to see it, too. After all, I wrote a real essay, not one sentence about balloons.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He didn’t jump and yippee like he did after the first sentence. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under California law, a juvenile has to be at least sixteen to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She did not answer, but merely crossed out a few of his feebler sentences in a weary sort of way. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“You don’t think I . . .” He couldn’t even finish the sentence. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily in such a plea, there was not a formal sentencing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I'm going to stick with the complete sentences, here,” she said, waving the essay at me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lastly, we get to some sentences—dozens of them: What time is it? Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

What if others— adults—had, upon becoming Twelves, received in their instructions the same terrifying sentence? The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

On our side of that sentence is empty land, grass and stretches of road. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Marlena twists her fingers awkwardly and lets the sentence go unfinished. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But it sounded Congolese in the way it rolled out with equal weight on every syllable—a pig in a sack—as if no single word wanted to take over the whole sentence. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tison will be retried on the murder count and sentenced on all convictions at a later date. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We were talking about his death sentence, and his tail is still wagging. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was being like those bratty girls in movies from the 1980s, and my mom kept saying “Young lady” after every sentence. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t neither one of us get a whole sentence out. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

This is the last sentence Morrie got out before I did: “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That odd, crackling noise you hear is the sound of a sentence short-circuiting! Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared stupidly at the superintendent, then dropped his head, like a victim awaiting sentencing. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They frown on sentences like Both of the thieves spent all of the money, and would prefer Both the thieves spent all the money. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a sentence gets complicated, though, even a literate writer can lose track of how each branch in a coordination harmonizes with the rest of the tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Snappy start to a sentence, Bozo — we just need to find a story to fit it —” “Trying to ruin someone else’s life?” said Harry loudly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then he remembered that the sentence was a line in a song that he knew. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has seven sentences—short enough to recite in a moment of danger. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The word “topic” in linguistics actually has two meanings.5 In this chapter we have been looking at the topic of a discourse or text, namely the subject matter of a series of connected sentences. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He said it as good morning or tucked in between sentences. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some days were long sentences flowing into one another. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The first sentence of each entry came up on my screen, and I read through them in about five minutes. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even saying that Germany should surrender could draw jail time or the death sentence. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Klotz begins with a routine acknowledgment of the instructions from ATC and doesn’t mention his concern about fuel until the second half of the sentence. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Okay—here's me using stultify in a sentence. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Summed up in one perfect sentence by Donne - ‘Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde’ - the movement was a ray of sunshine peeping out from behind storm clouds. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The sentence she needed to say was jammed up inside of her. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

A hundred million crystallized polio viruses could cover the period at the end of this sentence. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you don’t trust me, just turn the sentences around in your mind and you’ll end up with the correct verbs: Of the authors who say it best, he is one. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone who is heard using the word frindle instead of the word pen will stay after school and write this sentence one hundred times: I am writing this punishment with a pen. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remarkably, in the United States, a life sentence is deemed perfectly appropriate for someone whose only crime is a first-time drug offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So by the time they got around to sentencing me, I don’t think anybody was surprised when the judge put me here. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When she couldn’t even finish her sentence, I realized something was really wrong. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Introduced was a careful sentence to bring della Porta’s discussion of the soul in line with Christian teaching, and all references to the world soul, the anima mundi, were now carefully turned into quotations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I tried a few times but kept choking up, unable to get beyond the first sentences. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the sentence is improved by including it; sometimes it isn’t. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

By that sentence, Tolstoy meant that, in order to be happy, a marriage must succeed in many different respects: sexual attraction, agreement about money, child discipline, religion, in-laws, and other vital issues. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On which numbers will spell out a death sentence. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I look down at the article and see that she has underlined most of the sentences. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was beyond what she would have imagined even before she was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In fact, under the federal sentencing guidelines, providing “substantial assistance” is often the only way defendants can hope to obtain a sentence below the mandatory minimum. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I think that opening sentence sums up my sentiments exactly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was the only person she ever knew who could paraphrase three authors into one sentence and have them all make sense. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I do not propose to deal with the question of sentence today,” de Wet said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some died of the disease before they received their sentences. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I thought of Jack London not putting a final period on the last sentence of the book as Martin lost consciousness and drifted into death. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Because harsh sentencing is a major cause of the prison explosion, one might reasonably assume that substantially reducing the length of prison sentences would effectively dismantle this new system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I wondered how Estraven, with that sentence driving him, would go. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A powerful guilt blocked my spoken words; an essential glue was missing whenever I’d try to connect words to form sentences. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he can get the hell outta here, I say to myself, finishing Daddy’s sentence for him. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It leaned backwards as though the letters were reluctant to form words, and the words reluctant to be in sentences: Add the Pectin to concentrated juice. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

People who confuse the two may think that the adjectives in these sentences “modify the verb” and hence ought to be replaced by adverbs. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

If you don't want to seem repetitive by using different forms of the same verb, rearrange the sentence: They never have forgotten Pahs and never will. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pour them out on the page and don’t stop until the last sentence has captured every emotion I’ve been struggling to express. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

By the time she had gotten through the sentence, her teeth were chattering and her lips were blue. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It took me all day to read the article, a few sentences at a time, dashing up and down stairs to do more chores in between. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You say it like it was a jail sentence.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Reading a sentence and understanding it were the same thing; as with the crooking of a finger, nothing lay between them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She says you've served your sentence well and that she’ll consider letting you back on the team if we make it to the championship game. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

When people discussed me, the sentence usually began with “The biggest dork in the whole school is ...” Friend had to be a promotion from that. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Alfred Carter Jr., Deborah’s son, is in prison, serving a thirty-year sentence for robbery with a dangerous and deadly weapon, and first- degree assault with a handgun. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

His sentences usually had at least one break of faulty breath control, so that, often, his emphasized words, instead of rising, sank. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He was handsome and clean and dressed well and spoke in fine sentences. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But he couldn’t even figure out how he wanted to finish his sentence. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As Shin understood it, an assignment in the mines was a death sentence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Her voice trailed off as if she had ended that sentence with a comma and not a period. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s because the difficulty of a sentence depends not just on its word count but on its geometry. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Carve the notch above a sentence that does not elaborate or follow from the one that came before. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

For myself, I am still haunted by those vowel sounds and those uniquely ungrammatical sentences only she could dream up! The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

New ways of stringing words and sentences together come into fashion and vanish again, but the underlying structure simply grows, enriches itself, expands. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My note cards were upstairs, so I scribbled a few sentences down on a napkin and picked up the phone. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He then thanked Kaylene for what he characterized as her excellent probation report, reminding the courtroom it recommended a sentence of fifteen days. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Into my head jumped this sentence: Tryouts will be in a week, on the ides of March. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

That’s because most of us don’t put unessential information in the middle of our sentences, especially when speaking. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

James tossed those sentences out so casually, totally unaware of how such simple statements could make Emily’s head spin. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I don't know how long they might sentence someone for refusing to disclose the details of an affair, but I imagine it wouldn't be more than a year or two. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Earlier I mentioned that holding the branches of a tree in memory is one of the two cognitive challenges in parsing a sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I read the e-mail six times before the letters form words and the words form sentences that I can understand, but, even then, the meaning of all the words taken together eludes me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It isn’t until you’re sentenced to a place like this, by the way, that you can know what kind of busters they got working night shift. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She hoped that she wouldn’t have to say the rest of the sentence, that Billy would finish it for her. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here is the first sentence in my essay: What Shakespeare wanted to express about being a human being in Romeo and Juliet is that you better be careful who you trust. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t it be messed up if I just left the Lighthouse and Jaden and the sentence they gave me and went to another country to start over, like Mong said? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There is a sort-of attempt to make a distinction between figures and tropes—the former operating at the level of a phrase or sentence, and the latter being shifts in meaning for single words. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

And English sentences are often constructed without regard for building codes. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people branded felons, in fact, are not sentenced to prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Few challenges to sentencing schemes, patterns, or results have been brought since McCleskey, for the exercise is plainly futile. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Topic-then-comment and given-then-new orderings are major contributors to coherence, the feeling that one sentence flows into the next rather than jerking the reader around. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The appellate courts affirmed his conviction and sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Celia had a point: Rishi was a perfectly nice guy, and Dimple had sentenced him to a thousand lashes of her sharp tongue. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We went back to diagramming sentences, focusing on the imperfect tenses. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Valley took a deep breath again, and her voice hitched with the next sentence. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He stops and sighs before he stutters his way through another sentence. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Through an interpreter, the judge explained that the hearing was about whether he wished to fight the government’s plan to deport him to Mexico as soon as his sentence was finished. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some English teachers frown on starting a sentence with there, possibly because they prefer keeping the real subject before the verb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minho had looked him square in the face for the first time with that last sentence, and Thomas scooted back a few inches before he could stop himself. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

My companion coughed and cursed the court officials and the judge who had sentenced him. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve figured out that if I look at the first two letters and the last two letters of a word, I can sometimes figure it out from the rest of the sentence. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

To keep myself from finishing that sentence for her, I turn to the sink. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Within a week of the accident he had stopped speaking in sentences. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We were jubilant — that is, if men facing the death sentence can be said to be jubilant. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Goober nodded, accepting the assignment like a sentence of doom, the way all the others did, knowing there was no way out, no reprieve, no appeal. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first sentence in the book did not seem to contain any. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such was my sentence, and on that night would the dæmon employ every art to destroy me and tear me from the glimpse of happiness which promised partly to console my sufferings. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helen’s head, always drooping, sank a little lower as she finished this sentence. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Fluent writers have these constructions at their fingertips to simultaneously control the content of a sentence and the sequencing of its words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Her sentence was carried out in an instant, but that didn’t mean that her heart was hard or that she didn’t mourn for her friend. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

One side of the hallway is reserved for people who have been convicted of drug or property crimes and who have relatively short sentences of five years or fewer. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He spoke in short sentences: “It’s your life.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

And then, punctuating his sentence with a gathering up of the papers on his desk, he asked exactly what my problem was. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

After three trips to New Orleans for sentencing hearings, we still did not have a new sentence for Mr. Carter or Mr. Caston. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But perhaps in part because inmates cannot be “broken” as quickly as they used to be, their sentences in these segregation units now drag on and on, sometimes for years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The document, which alleged that Walter McMillian was unfairly tried, wrongly convicted, and illegally sentenced, drew a lot of attention in Monroeville. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

These sentences were imposed pursuant to California’s controversial three strikes law, which mandates a sentence of twenty-five years to life for recidivists convicted of a third felony, no matter how minor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Who shall hold her accountable, given these tumults, for pleading her belly to delay the fall of the terrible sentence? The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

By the end of that sentence, I was sweating. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She didn’t even read past the first sentence. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They were both sentenced to five years in adult prison. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

What if all of them were sentenced to live here until they died? The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Nine out of the lot of twenty-five began with the sentence, ‘I do not want to be a servant.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Erasers or sentence diagramming. Maybe Shakespeare,” I said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The rapid conviction, sentencing, and execution of the Lincoln assassination conspirators concluded the trial that had lasted through May and June. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pizarro hurriedly convoked a military tribunal, which quickly sentenced the Inka to execution—the theory apparently being that the approaching army would not attack if its leader were dead. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He sounded more like he was talking about a prison sentence. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They point to the current composition of state prisons as “proof” of this imagined fact, ignoring that sentencing practices distort our understanding of who is placed under state control and why. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Charlie slurred his words, barely able to form a coherent sentence. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

At the time of the meeting he claimed to have attended to plan the Port Elizabeth riot, he was serving a sentence for fraud in a Durban jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the sign is to point in the right direction, the sentence has to be rearranged. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise you could tilt toward that depending on the degree of restrictiveness, that is, the degree to which the meaning of the sentence critically depends on the relative clause. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

As I parsed Latin sentences, I noted 03-01’s interest in my progress. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Minny, having heard her name called in the same sentence as Hilly’s, is suddenly very alert. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I was still so dopey that I couldn’t make any sense of the passage I was copying, only a sentence here and there. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It is still a death sentence, just one a little longer in the making. We discovered long ago that the Grisha could prove a useful resource.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In fact, the state that slaves called Lousy Anna was the very worst place for an African in America; it was the Caribbean all over again—a death sentence. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Say you’ve identified the subject of a sentence, and it’s a word that could be interpreted as either singular or plural, like couple, total, majority, number, any, all, or none. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So we went to Oppenheimer,” Brady recalled of one such occasion, “and Lawrence hardly finished the first sentence when Oppie said, ‘No, no, no, no, no. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

October 6: Eleven women were arrested and had their sentences suspended. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It hovers there, silently, like an unfinished sentence. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Up to now, Aru had never given much thought to how a word or sentence might taste. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

After each sentence he would say, “Fine, fine.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He carries the words with him all day, letting them sort themselves into phrases, coming together, drifting apart, tumbling over onto themselves, settling into sentences, and paragraphs. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What happ—” At first Will didn’t understand what could possibly make his sister freeze in the middle of a sentence like that. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He chewed on his sentence for a moment. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.6: You can use a word or silly sentence to help you memorize which notes belong on the lines or spaces of a clef. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But despite all that, Valley had overheard her mother saying the Dimblewits had pulled some strings and used some of their considerable wealth to shorten their sentence. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I forgot how to speak in complete sentences. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Whenever I got near one of them, I invariably broke out in a cold sweat and lost the ability to speak in complete sentences. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Even Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has condemned the harsh mandatory minimum sentences imposed on people convicted of drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Animalcules or animalculæ.—Write a sentence containing this word. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

To think of the magic he could have worked in her room with his voice, a voice that gave a different flavor to every word, made every sentence a melody! Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Your feminists don't realize that there are different kinds of power," Ma interrupts, her accent taunting the one English word in her sentence. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For all its length and lexical exuberance, the sentence is easy to follow, because the reader never has to keep a phrase suspended in memory for long while new words pour in. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Just as almost no true sentence beginning with I could be spoken by Lindsey, Colin was watching all the things he'd thought were true about himself, all his I sentences, fall away. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Playfully she ran through complex sentences, calling the words alive with her voice, making it seem that the author somehow was speaking directly to me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between sentences, David peppers my face with kisses. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“But you use you for the beginning of a sentence.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They were sure, because where you were supposed to write “I am writing this punishment with a pen,” everyone was writing the word frindle every fourth or fifth sentence. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a woman was likely to have strange tastes, some said for filth, and it was set down to the Eve nature still under sentence for original sin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The defense lawyer had filed no written pleadings and uttered no more than twelve transcript lines at sentencing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The capacity to recognize syntax, to organize and deploy words into intelligible sentences, is innate in the human mind. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Folks say he’s so shy with words that weeks go by between one sentence and the next. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s an opening phrase that leaves the sentence scrambled. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, harsh mandatory minimum sentences for people convicted of drug offenses have been consistently upheld by the U.S. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It cannot be—” His sentence was cut short when something shot past me like a streak of moonlight. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Both these long sentences roll and gather powerfully, even allowing for the distortions of translation. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The next four constructions allow a writer to shift a phrase rightward when it is too heavy or too newsworthy to be taking up space in the middle of a sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And even where something appears merely decorative—a run of alliteration or a mellifluously turned sentence—it serves to commend the speech more easily to memory, and to give pleasure to the audience. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

When he heard her approach he would put away his novel and begin typing sentences. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She held out her hand and I gave her the note containing what felt like the two most important sentences I’d ever write. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Shortly after Marsha arrived at Tutwiler, we won the release of Diane Jones, who had been wrongly convicted and sentenced to die in prison for a crime she had not committed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They testified, according to the defense, only because they were given a break in their sentencing. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

In June 1923, Davis pleaded guilty to bribery and received a two-year sentence, but a few months later he was pardoned by the governor. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Each one of the Freedom Writers had to go down the line and read a sentence from a piece of paper. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I missed words and even sentences when occasionally I breathed deep or snored a little so they wouldn’t guess I was awake. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In the list of agreement errors above, for example, the last two sentences appear on my screen free of incriminating squiggles. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I read the sentence repeatedly, then scanned the room to see any body language that would reveal who wrote it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sentence is bound to sentence with repeated words—“conceive,” “dedicate,” “consecrate”— and with the antitheses of “we” and “they,” “living” and “dead.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

They had been sentenced to years on the island for criminal witches. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Let’s begin the next sentences,” said Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

As we shall see, the legal rules governing prosecutions, like those that govern sentencing decisions, maximize rather than minimize racial bias in the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Then I made up sentences that used at least as many letters as there are digits in this ciphertext. Beware the ninja monkey. He likes banana bread and drives a station wagon.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“And anyway...”—he hesitated before completing his sentence—“you still owe me, don’t you?’ Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Smith’s pencil sped almost indecipherably as he hurried toward more recent history: the motorcycle accident that had crippled him, the burglary in Phillipsburg, Kansas, that had led to his first prison sentence: ... In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess that’s why we have police and lawyers. There’s a whole system in place. Do bad things, go to jail. Do really bad things, kill people, and you get a death sentence.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But, hoping to shave time off his robbery sentence, he agreed to divulge to White and other agents what he knew. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If the Baconian system can be summed up in a sentence, it is that science must be built on the foundations provided by facts—a lesson that Boyle very much took to heart. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Allys hesitates for the briefest second, her eyes flickering over me, before she finishes her sentence. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I heard bits and pieces of sentences, words and names I had been hearing Papa talk about to Dadi, seen in the headlines from their newspapers. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Logically speaking, a sentence with a naysaying word like not, no, neither, nor, or never is just the mirror image of an affirmative sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was now serving a life sentence, and advised us to control our temper. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Defendants are typically denied meaningful legal representation, pressured by the threat of lengthy sentences into a plea bargain, and then placed under formal control—in prison or jail, on probation or parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In 1958 he was convicted of house burglary in a Johnson County court and sentenced to five years in Kansas State Penitentiary. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Random House Dictionary: “Nothing in the history of the infinitive in English ... supports the so-called rule, and in many sentences ... the only natural place for the modifying adverb is between to and the verb.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

If they were where they could talk, Toby thought to himself, one of them would be starting a sentence and the other finishing it—as if they had Siamese brains, or something. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushes the sentence out on a single breath. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Something is slightly off in these sentences, but what? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I speak that sentence as if it’s the one great truth I’ve ever known. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And if you do use two, they should act like parentheses to isolate a remark from the rest of the sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Russell Quitman would ever walk again or if Ada Taylor had sentenced herself to a life of sitting around and waiting on him hand and foot. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Coherence relations among sets of sentences need not be perfectly treelike. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court announced its decision: Life imprisonment without parole sentences imposed on children convicted of non-homicide crimes is cruel and unusual punishment and constitutionally impermissible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty much a death sentence for people with CF. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Another complication is the kind of sentence that can go either way: Basil dislikes that woman’s wearing shorts. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are there too many images, as in this sentence? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Prothero’s sister told Tony as he was leaving the courthouse after sentencing that “Bruce stood for everything that was good in society, and you stand for everything that is evil.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They seemed to speak cooperatively, and if a sentence was more than a few words long, one would start and the other finish, with no detectable pause between. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m feeling a little ...” I didn’t finish the sentence. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

If you could tap into the Illuminated world, you could read the history of each mark as clearly as you could read a sentence from a book. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was the first sentence he had exchanged at the table with his sister. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean they might help decide my sentence?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But replace the word money in that sentence with tissue, and you’ve got precisely the logic many people use to argue against giving donors any control over their tissues.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Once a week they utter a complete sentence. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He strung ordinary sentences together and they came out sounding either like the most profane curses or like comical poetry. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shakespeare called the full stop a period in A Midsummer Night’s Dream when he described nervous players “making periods in the midst of sentences”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Prosper can't think clearly at the moment,” Victor completed the sentence. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was sentenced to six years in prison, but was released on bail pending her appeal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It can be imagined what effect Rocinante had on two hundred teenage prisoners of education just settling down to serve their winter sentence. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He poured a smaller drink and reread his last sentence. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Honey went to the blackboard and wrote with her white chalk the sentence, I have already begun to learn how to read long sentences. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She pried at the edges of my sentences to get me to say something more. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The commander informed me that they’ll sentence Day tomorrow morning,” Thomas says a moment later, after we finish greeting a captain from the Emerald sector. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In that chapter we saw that in a coherent passage the topic of the discourse is aligned with the topic of the sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Her voice trailed off and nobody offered to finish the sentence for her. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

My guess is that it took you no more than a few seconds per sentence. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

His voice grew softer and softer as he spoke, and the last sentence came out as little more than a whisper. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Not in learning Italian or Swahili or Mandarin, but in language itself, its shape and structure, the Lego blocks of sounds that snap together to make words and sentences. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I let the sentence drift off, then I march to my room and get my math books and stack them by the door. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time they were sentenced to thirty days in the Occoquan Workhouse in rural Virginia. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Salomon was twice arrested and sentenced to death, but he somehow escaped. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is just no predicting what kind of sentences you might say, thought Flora. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

We told him that we believed that he had been unfairly convicted and sentenced. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And Park seemed to have a hard time finishing his sentences. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

A door slam or a sentence that did not end in “ma’am” could make her furious. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Instead of the final article, it was a single sentence, copied over and over again in cold lead. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Then I made up sentences that used at least as many letters as there are digits in this ciphertext. Beware the ninja monkey. He likes banana bread and drives a station wagon.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

This chapter is about the sense of style in passages longer than a sentence—a paragraph, a blog post, a review, an article, an essay, or a book. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

What do I say when the waiter asks, "Which wine, sir"? The same principle works with exclamations inside exclamations, and with sentences that have both exclamations and questions. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she had obliterated three years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The older boy made a deal with prosecutors and got a parole-eligible life sentence, while Evan was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“He parrots anything anyone tells him. Most of the time he can hardly string a sentence together.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s what you do: • If a sentence ends with an abbreviation that has a final period, don’t add another period. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a BDM leader, she was accused of miseducating Germany’s young people and sentenced to several years at a women’s prison camp. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I did that to my own blood brother because, years before, Mr. Muhammad had sentenced Reginald to “isolation” from all other Muslims—and I considered that I was a Muslim before I was Reginald’s brother. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The sentence of the Court,” the judge said, “is that you pay a fine of one hundred dollars and the costs of the prosecution.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The way the sentence stands, the mountain was out taking a stroll! Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t even think of the first sentence. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But she didn’t know how to finish that sentence. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Increased penalties were ordered for membership in illegal organizations; sentences from five years to the death penalty were instituted for “furthering the aims” of communism or of other banned organizations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of women have been sentenced to lengthy terms in prison for writing bad checks or for minor property crimes that trigger mandatory minimum sentences. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Teleki’s association with the Hungarian uprising against Austrian rule in March 1848, a revolt that was crushed by Imperial armies and followed by a punitive policy of Germanisation, led to him being sentenced to death. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They had a habit of finishing each other’s sentences. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

September 22: Four women were arrested and sentenced to thirty days in the workhouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure how to end that sentence. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sentence on top of what I went through. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was brought to the square, forced to plead guilty to his crime, and sentenced to a whipping to be carried out immediately. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever one sentence comes after another, readers need to see a connection between them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And late that night, the sentence that stays with me is this: “You’re going to be a better artist than I ever will be.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Eilonwy dropped off to sleep in the middle of one of her sentences. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

That she wanted to get my death sentence reduced. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We were told that after de Wet pronounced the death sentence, he would ask me, as the first accused, “Have you any reason to advance why the sentence of death should not be passed?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The end of my sentence was drowned out by another roar from the crowd. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And she looked at me again and didn’t finish the sentence. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Possession with the intent to distribute was a charge of a completely different magnitude—with serious mandatory sentences. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She was still struggling at the women's prison but was excited about the possibility of our doing something to change her sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He barely had an accent: It only came through in the sharpness of his vowels and the lilt in his sentences, as if there was the shade of a question in everything he said. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We spoke a bunch of two-or three-word sentences but I don’t remember who said what, because whatever you said were my thoughts, as well. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I heard her speak in full, lovely sentences from my room across the hall. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Often the subject of a sentence—whoever or whatever is doing the action—is a two-headed creature with or or nor in the middle: Milk or cream is fine, thank you. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trial court sentenced Mrs. Colbey to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, and a short while later she found herself shackled in a prison van heading to the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

So when he gave out my sentence it was almost like he didn’t give me a sentence at all. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, the mere utterance of the words “sumo” and “rigged” in the same sentence can cause a national furor. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Why? Because you’ve become incapable of responding to my questions in more than little nubs of sentences. And where? To the Last Hoorah party.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Vaguely, I realize Christoffel is still waiting for me to finish my sentence. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Whenever you are tempted to use dashes, remember this: • Use no more than two per sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even taught him how to spell and to write sentences, and he turned out to be a splendid intelligent pupil. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The repeated “He,” has a sarcastic tone, and the hysteron proteron in the second sentence foregrounds this notion on which the argument turns: Is pride really a bad thing? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

All it takes is a single question, a word or a sentence, and before you know it, the entire family is involved! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In 2007, we wrote to Joe and discovered that he had no legal assistance and had spent the previous eighteen years in prison with no one to help him challenge his conviction or sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She decided to focus on just one sentence at a time. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But I was disappointed I hadn’t managed to say one real sentence to her, not one that told her how I was really feeling. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

What did ships have to do with lawn mowers, and why would he go to the trouble to write this sentence down and then carefully hide it underneath the seat? Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All it shows is that you’re trying to make something good out of this tragedy. “I was going to sentence you to ninety days,” the judge said. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

All I could hear were the voices of the ancient witches burbling their silly sentences about "How kind Your Grandness is" and all the rest of it. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He would give anything to be with her now, to muss up her hair once more and watch her make a face, to hear her finish a sentence with him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour was lifted from the an-imals’ backs. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Many sentences, though, have several things going on in them—actions happening at different times, each with its own verb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Delacruz that afternoon checking a dictionary, making sure to spell correctly all the words in a legal appeal to get his sentence reduced. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people tense up when one action comes after another in a sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Generous punctuation would also take the fun out of some of the psycholinguists’ garden path sentences, such as When Fred eats food gets thrown. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

There’s a third time-honored trick: read the sentence aloud. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

There were, as I recall, many misspelt, ill- formed sentences about how much in love the couple were, how wonderful the second footman was, and how marvellous the future was that awaited them both. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

For example, listen to the phrases in the melody of "The Riddle Song" and see how they line up with the four sentences in the song. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I guess if you’re going to be sentenced to death, this isn’t a bad place for it.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hugo leans over Helmuth's shoulder and reads the first sentence out loud. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The girl must have written this sentence hundreds of times by now. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His eyes closed, and he did not finish the sentence. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

For revealing that secret, the great Pythagoras himself sentenced Hippasus to death by drowning. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I mentioned the case of Robey Leibbrandt, who set up an underground organization during the Second World War to oppose South Africa’s support for the Allies; he was sentenced to life imprisonment but soon pardoned. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could write it in one sentence,” and she held up a stubby finger about the size of a Tootsie Roll. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. French would read out a sentence and we had to write it down as neatly as we could. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Heat rises to my face as she utters the last sentence. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth and waited for the sentence I hoped would arrive. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He added a final, unusual piece to the sentence. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My love letter had only two sentences and later I figured out I had spelled her name wrong. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

At two months out, he turned it up another notch, beginning almost every sentence with, “When I get a dog....” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

It remains the law in Alabama, where judges almost exclusively use this power to turn life sentences into death sentences, although they're also authorized to reduce death verdicts to life if they so choose. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The point of each sentence is that Buster’s dog won. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They licked their lips: and the dogs muttered that they had been promised the task of carrying out the sentence. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After an awkward hanging up, I realize the intended ending of the "I don't even . . ." sentence. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Her thoughts wouldn’t congeal into sentences that would make sense. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

By inserting only in various places, you can give the sentence many different meanings. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time he went AWOL, he was caught and sentenced to dig and fill up holes six feet deep, wide and long for a specified length of time. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Ben of the Builders, you’ve been sentenced to Banishment for the attempted murder of Thomas the Newbie. The Keepers have spoken, and their word ain’t changing. And you ain’t coming back. Ever.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Even worse, a sentence can have more negations than you think it does. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

That was supposed to be his closing sentence. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The sentences of the first books I read were coolly impersonal. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Always taking one sentence that someone had said and dissecting it until it meant nothing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When she didn’t continue, Dad finished her sentence. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

His sentence trailed off, and he rubbed his chin and stared thoughtfully through the window on the wall behind Mrs. Chatham. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had practiced saying that sentence in the shower that morning. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

These front-loaded modifiers can be useful in qualifying a sentence, in tying it to information mentioned earlier, or simply in avoiding the monotony of having one right-branching sentence after another. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“They haven’t been out today. And of course—” She had a habit of breaking off her sentences in the middle. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It happened at the same time that we were representing children sentenced to life without parole all over the country. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It would have been one thing if all MDR prisoners had died while incarcerated, but many got released after serving their sentences. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

When I had finished, the magistrate ordered a ten-minute recess to consider the sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma rewrote awkward sentences, and if she didn’t understand what he was trying to say, they talked it through so that he could write it in a more lucid fashion. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His sentence was later commuted to life in prison and then reduced to fourteen years. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rereading each sentence in pieces, she began to get a grip on what Fort was saying: Depending on how you looked at things, your world could change completely. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Rank continued, using the verb in a sentence. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But we shouldn’t have to read a sentence twice to get it. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, his face flushed, stumbling over his opening sentences, he began to read from a legal pad. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some states changed their statutes to create more hopeful sentences for child offenders. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He could figure out every word in the sentence without a bit of trouble. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he finished the sentence, Sheed jogged over to the upside-down car. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She talked like a run-on sentence, no pauses or periods. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Her feet go forward and her heart ba-bamps when she must see The Taker once again, at his sentencing hearing. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Wes’s brother, Tony, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after he was convicted as the trigger man in the death of Sergeant Prothero. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The sentence Flora intended to say was “It doesn’t matter.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

And Bodega would, too, confident that Nazario would get him acquitted or at least a light sentence. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She does not read it the way she and Kat used to read books—devouring them with the speed of two people famished for words, ideas, and beautiful sentences that make you feel everything. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

If Robert Louis Stevenson had written a sentence like that in Treasure Island, no one would have ever read the book, I thought. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The deletions are tempting to a writer because they tighten up a sentence’s rhythm and avoid the ugly sibilance of which. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It is covered in fragments—some are words or sentences that may or may not become story ideas. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Almost from the beginning of my sentence on Robben Island, I asked the authorities for permission to start a garden in the courtyard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fannie was sentenced to six months in jail, and the union did not have enough money to post her bail. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby tried to form a sentence, but nothing came out. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She heard the unspoken end to that sentence. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Going back there right now is a death sentence, Magister Spurge. It would not be heroic. You will be caught, imprisoned, and tortured. So we are going away from the city.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I find myself whispering long, never-ending sentences to God, begging for Mother to feel some relief, pleading for good news about the book, sometimes even asking for some hint of what to do about Stuart. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I know what the rest of the sentence must be. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The generation of an RNA copy of a gene was termed transcription—referring to the rewriting of a word or sentence in a language close to the original. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It can only be defined by the anecdote, the chance encounter or the sentence overheard. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tony Russo was also charged with theft and espionage, and was looking at a sentence of up to thirty-five years. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As far as I could tell, Wilson recited all of this without taking a single breath, speaking in the flat monotone of someone who repeats the same sentences all day long. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Under the influence of Stein’s Three Lives, I spent hours and days pounding out disconnected sentences for the sheer love of words. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me that my sense of language is improving along with my sentence structure. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, all around me, too, the church ladies began nodding their approval, punctuating his sentences with calls of “Mmmm-hmm” and “That’s right!” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After each new sentence the old man would nod his head and say “Ah” or “Oh” or “Mmm” in a serious voice. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was only ten when he died, but I remembered his almost-green albino eyes, the way he seemed to use the word sinner in every sentence. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Blacks knew that no white man accused of a similar crime against a black woman would have been convicted at all, let alone sentenced to die. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Three months after his sentencing, the judge would receive an evaluation of his conduct at the Division of Juvenile Justice, as California’s juvenile facilities are called. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The sentence was indeed life in prison without the possibility of parole. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s just,” I said, and then couldn’t finish my sentence. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

A dangling adverb at the front of a sentence is a lot like a horse that’s hitched to the wrong wagon. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their sentences could include community service, counseling, and even jail time. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And the house looked so different from the outside, like you’d never know it was a group home full of bad kids unless you were sentenced to be there. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bridge heard her mother telling her father that Emily’s “growth spurt” made her think of those silent four-year-olds who suddenly start speaking in full sentences. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I stare at all his markings, comments on the sides, question marks, whole sentences crossed out. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He would never have been sentenced to death if someone had investigated his past. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She did not know if her mother was referring to Sidhean, but she rolled the sentence around in her mind while she did her errands during her stepsisters’ fittings. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young man’s sentences grew jumbled as he continued, but his face remained earnest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even for high-end drug crimes, most countries impose sentences that are measured in months, rather than years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, I have not had occasion to use either of these sentences. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It sounds crazy, I know, but I’m not going to cross out that last sentence, because it’s not as crazy as it seems. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I push another button for a sentence Mrs. V and I prepared ahead of time. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

A group of protesters have streaked their hair scarlet, imitating the bloodstained lock Day had when he’d stood out here for his sentencing. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He was with Miss Mattie Lou—coughing and mumbling disconnected sentences picked out of the air from this or that time in their life. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But a big qualifier must be added to this sentence: “in the long run and over large areas.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Claudia didn’t know that this sentence was a common one used in practice typing. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His third sentence is missing a period, which she now carefully inserts with her finest-nibbed fountain pen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The brain’s sentence parser starts to thrash when faced with the successive leaves at the beginning, and it crashes altogether when it gets to the pile of alones at the end. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In my head the sentences were intact, but I wasn’t sure they came out that way. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then we learned new words and how to make sentences. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, the women were sentenced to sixty days in jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He did not need her to finish her sentence. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But the unconscious mastery of language that is our birthright as humans is not enough to allow us to write good sentences. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The last sentence worried Meggie, but when she looked anxiously at her mother, Teresa smiled and reached for her hand. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They tried the sentence again, reading together out loud: “‘For the most wild yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.’” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They gave her written exams in Spanish to see whether she could write a sentence, whether she could write a paragraph, whether she could do certain math problems. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I learned that I couldn’t fit the sentence on one line. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Let’s look at one sentence on page ninety-four of this very entertaining introduction to Zen that I had you read this week. ‘Everything that comes together falls apart,’ ” the Old Man said. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

When a sentence has if in it, the verbs have to be in balance. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was still a teenager serving her sentence at the Tutwiler Prison for Women, she started writing to me to ask about various legal decisions she'd read about in the newspaper. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The problem was so significant in Illinois that in 2003, Governor George Ryan, a Republican, citing the unreliability of capital punishment, commuted the death sentences of all 167 people on death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For the state, a death sentence would be the most practical verdict. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I wonder," she said, "whether any of you three who know how to spell cat have learned how to read a whole group of words when they are strung together in a sentence?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The reader shouldn’t need a map to follow a sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s in my head, the sentences I plan to tell her. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Did you get—" I don't know how to finish that sentence. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Napoleon called the animals together immediately and in a terrible voice pronounced the death sentence upon Frederick. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t the sentence come out the same either way? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

One encyclopedia had a sentence of praise for us: “The common rat is highly valued as an experimental animal in medical research due to his toughness, intelligence, versatility and biological similarity to man.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even though she’s said things, even though she’s implied there’s more than one, it all comes down to her next sentence. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

If ending a sentence with than I or than she or than they seems awkward or fussy, you might simply add the missing thought: Trixie loves spaghetti more than I do. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his thumb and his forefinger, he slides my eyelids shut, sentencing me to the vulnerability of darkness. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Virginia, for example, fees paid to court-appointed attorneys for representing someone charged with a felony that carries a sentence of less than twenty years are capped at $428. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Count one, eight to ten years— “Count two, eight to ten years— “Count three . . .” And, finally, “The sentences to run concurrendy.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In March, a British court convicted Fuchs of espionage and sentenced him to fourteen years in prison. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

TOMBSTONE: Always put the subject of a sentence before the verb. r.i.p. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d only gotten to say about three sentences, and it was such a complicated story. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Every little light of New York City was a period at the end of a sentence. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mind you, I never did know him well because in all those months and years I was at the school, I doubt whether he addressed more than six sentences to me altogether. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one anodyne sentence that caught her attention now—not for what it said, but for what it blandly tried to conceal. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

What kind of job could a nine-year- old who could barely write a complete sentence of English do? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand frozen, or I hold up the line with the complete, grammatical sentence that comes squeaking out at impossible length. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vagueness lies in the focus of the negation—which phrase the writer had in mind as falsifying the whole sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He spoke slowly, and I noticed that he had a habit of finishing everything he said with “and I’d even say,” when really it didn’t add anything to the meaning of his sentence. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

It is easy to read past sentences like these, because we now swim in a sea of facts and think that they are merely a recitation of the obvious. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The King stopped in the middle of the sentence, and looked at him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their wives were sentenced to twenty-five years in prison and fined $10,000. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Then Katie emailed me an update of her project outline, with the topic sentences from every paragraph. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The elimination of judicial discretion through mandatory sentencing laws has forced judges to impose sentences for drug crimes that are often longer than those imposed for violent crimes in many countries around the world. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Weak writers like to use scientific-sounding words to lend authority to limp sentences. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hide behind the door, wait until she comes, hobbles along the hall, bearing whatever sentence, penance, punishment, jump out at her, knock her down, kick her sharply and accurately in the head. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

If sentencing were the only stage of the criminal justice process in which racial biases were allowed to flourish, it would be a tragedy of gargantuan proportions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some of the notices consisted of only one sentence, others were longer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Writers themselves can lose track and put too many of them into a word or sentence, making it mean the opposite of what they intended. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“All prisoners, political or otherwise,” says the second, “are forced to do labor, even if they have not been sentenced to it.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Other times it was real sentences, but they didn’t make sense. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Constitution—with a couple of short sentences, solemnly agreeing to take on the country’s every concern. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was while James Callender was serving his sentence for libel in a Richmond jail that he first heard rumors of Jefferson’s sexual liaison with a mulatto slave named Sally Hemings. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The fourth sentence seems to come out of the blue, and the fifth seems to contradict the fourth. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Cluny would have sentenced them to death and personally killed them with his bare claws. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

For each man a poison drifting out of the sky carried a death sentence. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Stop the car, let me out,” she said, not realizing until the sentence left her mouth that she spoke in Polish. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Thus with one sentence I can summarize my academic career. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Capricorn acted as if he hadn’t heard the last sentence. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“And that our sentence shall be...twenty-five years’ hard labor.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He was also poorly read, seldom wrote his own speeches, and, according to one member of his cabinet, “could not write a sentence without misspelling some word.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As a result of his new arrest, the judge revoked Terrance's probation and sentenced him to die in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A second obvious way to avoid garden paths is to punctuate a sentence properly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was mumbling bits and pieces of sentences through his yellowing moustache. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

On the last sentence it opened, horrible and vast, the skin stretching ravenously from bone to bone and tooth to tooth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another Louisiana man, Johnny Lee Ball, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after meeting with a public defender for just eleven minutes before trial. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Look at these two sentences: Buster’s bulldog, which had one white ear, won best in show. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came up with a sentence he really liked: Coo gives her comfort, courage, and confidence. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

This sentence took you three seconds to read. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I wondered why he paused before each sentence, as though he weighed his words. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And he had plenty of time for it, since he was serving an eighteen-year sentence for the armed robbery of a bank. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what if a sentence has a smaller sentence within it? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I said a clever metalworker and you came back with this boy... this saucebox, who couldn’t do the work anyway, because he ...’ Johnny waited grimly for her to finish her sentence. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

All three had come to the end of their sentences and would soon be released. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to read but the sentences meant nothing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Action slows to a dreamlike glide, frame by frame; the motion of a hand, a sentence spoken, fills an eternity. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the deep structure, the w/i-word appears in the position you’d expect for an ordinary sentence, in this case after the verb love, as in I love Lucy. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Mandatory drug sentencing laws strip judges of their traditional role of considering all relevant circumstances in an effort to do justice in the individual case. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A sentence on the back advised: Plan to see Vermont’s fall foliage between Sept. 25 and Oct. 15th when it is at its vivid best. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of an ogre’s first sentence in Kyrrian, you forgot his pointy teeth, the dried blood under his fingernails, and the coarse black hair that grew on his face in clumps. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Supreme Court has now closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the criminal justice process, from stops and searches to plea bargaining and sentencing. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The judge issued shorter sentences—ten to fifteen days—so that hunger strikes wouldn’t be an issue. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It takes a moment for his last sentence to sink in. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just because you read the word “yawning” in the previous two sentences — and the two additional “yawns” in this sentence — a good number of you will probably yawn within the next few minutes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What happened, they made a deal and Killer Kane pled guilty, which means he has to serve out the rest of his original sentence plus ten more years. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

People who signed the twenty-five-year sentence were able to go to the village. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He had been sentenced for planting explosives outside a Cape Town prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sentence is written, the yolk is the one cracking the egg. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can happily report that he’s up to at least five words per sentence. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Bram went underground while out on bail and was captured in 1965, and sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiracy to commit sabotage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 2010, Florida had sentenced more than a hundred children to life imprisonment without parole for non-homicide offenses, several of whom were thirteen years old at the time of the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I thought about how if I died, my obituary would only be a few sentences. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And, above all, I wanted to avoid trouble, for I feared that if I clashed with whites I would lose control of my emotions and spill out words that would be my sentence of death. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he could have formed whole sentences, he’d have explained that they watched too many scary movies to make that mistake. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, only seven of the ten cardinals sitting as the council of the Inquisition signed the sentence, with Barberini among the three who refused. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ian's appointed lawyer encouraged him to plead guilty, assuring him that he would be sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Dasch, sentenced to thirty years, gasped out his fears that his family in Germany would be punished." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

They remained to trouble me after I’d leave the library each afternoon and feel myself shy—unsteady, speaking simple sentences at the grocer’s or the butcher’s on my way back to my bed-sitter. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton reached for pen and paper and wrote a single sentence. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Who the—" She swallows the curse on the other side of her sentence. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was still alive but paralyzed, sentenced to a slow death. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But Sobukwe was sentenced not to three weeks’ but to three years’ imprisonment without the option of a fine. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet even after accounting for thirty-five nonracial variables, the researchers found that defendants charged with killing white victims were 4.3 times more likely to receive a death sentence than defendants charged with killing blacks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So here’s me using swivet in a sentence. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Then,” said Mrs. Baker, “we wouldn’t have to diagram any sentences for the rest of the afternoon.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

That figure, of course, does not include the thousands who avoid prison but are arrested, convicted, and sentenced to jail or probation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We can prepare hundreds of phrases and sentences and get to them with just a touch. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Even while living in the Chelsea Hotel while waiting for my sentencing, I spent more time looking into the mirror at my wounded face than I did into my notebook. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He was “serving a life sentence for murder, when a new inmate walked into the shower room one day and stared at his face. “ Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Humiliated before the general body, they received sentences of from one to five years of “isolation.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The period is the stop sign at the end of a sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Underdown relented after a while and told me certain sentences. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So many words were still unknown that when the butcher or the lady at the drugstore said something to me, exotic polysyllabic sounds would bloom in the midst of their sentences. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inserting we find or we see into the main clause to avoid a dangler can make the sentence stuffy and self-conscious. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It’s the first sentence Mom has said to me since last night. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

As soon as Jane had read Mr. Gardiner’s hope of Lydia’s being soon married, her joy burst forth, and every following sentence added to its exuberance. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

In the following chapter, which is about sequences of sentences rather than individual sentences, we’ll see how to do that. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The narrator, he found upon reading the first sentence, bore his own name— Ishmael. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed keeping my legal skills sharp, and in a few cases verdicts were overturned and sentences reduced. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You do know that you’re now a slave, don’t you? Has your sentence taught you nothing?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For centuries, it was fine to pile one negative on top of another in the same sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They treat these introductory words as mere throat-clearing with no grammatical significance, then stick in an unnecessary is before going on with the rest of the sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing I did was write the judge and ask him to reduce my sentence to time served. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

For instance, any changes with respect to drugs and controlled substances or illegal immigration could affect the number of persons arrested, convicted and sentenced, thereby potentially reducing demand for correctional facilities to house them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Father Byrnes stood at the first station and prayed to the bulto on the wall that showed Christ being sentenced by Pilate. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost every sentence included the word bomb, which began to worry Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because she was facing capital murder charges and a potential death sentence, she made a deal to accept a prison sentence of twenty years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Among the five thousand men held there, the average sentence is 89.9 years. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Carter sentenced King to pay five hundred dollars and serve one year of hard labor in prison. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The diagrams are just a way to draw your attention to the cognitive entities that are active in your mind as you put together a sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I saw that it was going to be long, and I stopped after a few sentences. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had texted with Grace a few times, mostly responding to Grace’s somewhat awkward sentences. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Eating well, healthy?—and parsing every word for tone and nuance, as if his sentences are a code I can crack. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I hardly recognize day, even though it's only been seven hours since the sentencing. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And she continues, after a few more sentences, that the sum of the misconduct of Reggie and his allies enabled Reggie to go on a mission, which could somehow protect him from justice. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Trolls who had been taught a few simple sentences by the goblins proceeded to destroy the hall as before. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although no admissions of racial bias or racist intent could be found in the record, Judge Cahill believed race was undeniably a factor in the crack sentencing laws and policies. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

From the time I was two, when I first started speaking in paragraphs that began with topic sentences, Malcolm and Maud had told me that I was exceptionally smart. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She would never be able to form the sentences to tell her story. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The clear majority of those subject to harsh mandatory minimum sentences in the federal system are people convicted of drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

James tossed those sentences out so casually, totally unaware of how such simple statements could make Emily’s head spin. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting on a cracked vinyl sofa, staring out at my abuela’s restaurant from a tiny window while I await my sentence. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But this picture would wildly distort your understanding of the population that had been sentenced to prison during the past ten years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The doctor stopped with a jerk in the middle of his sentence. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Her voice cracks at the end of the sentence. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

During his second sentence on the roads of Florida, Adam reduced his personality to a minus. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I replay the sentence again in my mind, searching for a way that it could mean something different from what I know it means. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The challenge to the writer is to use those resources so that the reader can graft the information in a series of sentences into his web of knowledge without getting tangled up in either. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She let that hang in the air for a while, and I began to worry she wanted me to finish her sentence, but I didn’t. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And O’Connor frequently moves temporal modifiers to the front of the sentence: When the cold weather arrives; When the fish are frozen out; In the winter; When these areas become frozen solid. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The purpose of their visit was twofold: to see how we had settled in, and to verify that we still did not want to appeal our sentences. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sentence often sounds better when the to is close to the infinitive: Dilbert decided to mention dating in the workplace. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her sentences had a hasty quality; he wondered what she had been doing then. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We worked together every day for hours, late into the night, until one day he could put sentences together by himself. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Kemp that racial bias in sentencing, even if shown through credible statistical evidence, could not be challenged under the Fourteenth Amendment in the absence of clear evidence of conscious, discriminatory intent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The article was a furious denunciation of Mencken, concluding with one, hot, short sentence: Mencken is a fool. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma asked Frank to omit other sentences as well, and he complied. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You must help me,” she said, desperation in her voice, “if the baby is, if the baby is . . .” She could not finish the sentence. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could not bear to sit there and hear that sentence read aloud. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

With the knowledge of the sentences his brother and the other two defendants had received, he’d known his fate would be the same. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He added his initials below the sentence, tore the memo from the pad, and folded it in half. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes wavered and she did not finish her sentence. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes a swig of her drink and wipes her mouth with her sleeve while talking at the same time, so I miss the first part of her sentence. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I wait for the but... in his sentence. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Finally the plane’s radar picks up the mistake, and then comes the key sentence: “Captain hit First Officer with the back of his hand for making the error.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When it’s time to start another sentence, start another sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adlai Stevenson, the U.S. representative at the U.N., wrote a letter saying that his government would do everything it could to prevent a death sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now we see the other major benefit of the passive: it allows the doer to be mentioned later in the sentence than the done-to. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The same is true for the two baffling sentences I used on page 140, the ones about moderate drinkers and Serbian intervention. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The sentence didn’t strike her as being a cipher since it was made up of actual words, not a garbled mix of letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When the matter was closed, when the sentence was passed and the congregation dispersed, a ruthless youthful forgetting, a willful erasing, protected her well into her teens. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At first I could not make much sense of what I heard; for the discourse of Louisa Eshton and Mary Ingram, who sat nearer to me, confused the fragmentary sentences that reached me at intervals. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of faking it, I push the button for the sentence “Go back to H-5,” and Catherine and I roll back down the hall. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

People who did were sentenced to three years in jail. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s just get in there and shut that door until we figure something out. Maybe we can keep it—” Alec shushed him, cutting off his sentence. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There were guys like me dressed in street clothes who had been out on bail and were now sentenced. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The verb is the business end of a sentence, the sentences reason for being. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a violent punctuation to all those undistinguishable sentences, as if Shmuel wanted to shake his fist in the Nazi’s face but didn’t dare. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The prosecuting attorney claims that you were not very cooperative at the time of your sentencing, and I don't find you terribly cooperative at present." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

So the two weeks of Turner’s sentence ended and he was free—or at least as free as any minister’s boy could be. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Take the sentence I didn’t see a man in a gray flannel suit. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, I had been so pleased to have my voice back that I hadn’t realized that I was still able to speak only in simple, baby sentences, as if I were three years old. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how to finish the sentence. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A short time after the trial and conviction, one of Ames's disillusioned CIA colleagues reflected on the larger meaning of his capture and sentencing. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

This ruling was remarkable given that, prior to the Drug Reform Act of 1986, the longest sentence Congress had ever imposed for possession of any drug in any amount was one year. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Go find some dinner—your terrible prison sentence of one day is over.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I no sooner had the sentence out of my mouth than Branwell blinked his eyes twice, very rapidly, and I knew he understood the rules of our communication. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were devastated when the Court of Criminal Appeals issued a ruling affirming her conviction and sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They would switch from Farsi to English between sentences, or sometimes even within them, and me and Dad would be left out. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Hawk began reciting the last sentence Lincoln would ever hear, a series of corny insults that delighted the audience. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have made an art form out of grammatical yet unparsable sentences: The horse raced past the barn fell. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Talk about a sentence you could never predict you would say. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Thirty-five years in this Night Zoo was more than a prison sentence; it was an entire life gone—her life. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you could just wait out here,” he says, finally getting an entire sentence out. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The language was old-fashioned, and Emily noticed a spelling mistake right off the bat and then another a few sentences later, so she was having trouble getting into the story. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

State legislatures were eager to jump on the “get tough” bandwagon, passing harsh drug laws, as well as “three strikes” laws mandating a life sentence for those convicted of any third offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He knows how to put God and the street in the same sentence, and I figured if I’m going to write poetry at all, that’s what I want to do. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negative sentences are easy when the reader already has an affirmative in mind or can create one on short notice; all he has to do is pin a “false” tag onto it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

There were more services available in the state’s Division of Juvenile Justice facilities than in the county’s Juvenile Hall, she argued, and the sooner Richard was sentenced, the sooner he could take advantage of them. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"The court orders the following to be sentenced," he says in a smug, satisfied voice. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He sentenced Claudette to pay a small fine and kept her on probation in the custody of her parents. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He was sentenced to more than fourteen years in prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, as we’ll see, recognizing these major groups is still so useful for understanding history that I’ll use the group names as shorthand, without repeating the above caveats in every sentence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But while has also gained acceptance as a substitute for although or whereas at the beginning of a sentence or clause: While Grumpy can whistle, he prefers not to. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the time it takes to read this sentence, another person has died of malaria. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Then I’d read it over and over, adding each time a word, a phrase, a sentence until I felt that I had caught all the shadings of reality I felt dimly were there. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But one day...He did not finish the sentence. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then Davis and several conspirators proceeded to rob—and murder—a prominent attorney; this time, Davis received a life sentence. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If convicted, he faced a maximum sentence of life in prison, a punishment he would never have faced if he had been charged as a juvenile. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I figure if I keep my head down, maybe I can serve out the balance of my life sentence in relative peace. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A grammatical function identifies not what a word is in the language but what it does in that particular sentence: how it combines with the other words to determine the sentence’s meaning. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Class, your homework is to define limerence and use it in a sentence. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If the Cassell’s gave him a translation he didn't understand, one that wouldn’t fit the meaning of the sentence, he looked the English word up in the psychology dictionary. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

"Here's the situation. A 5010B is a youth sentence. It means you can do anywhere from sixty days to six years, depending on your behavior and what the parole board thinks." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Don’t make the reader rearrange your messy sentences to figure out what’s going on. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we filled the smiling gaps of our sentences with familiar Spanish sounds. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They put colons and full stops at the ends of sentences. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Vik looks over at his sister and decides not to finish his sentence. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Anyhow you can’t. It’s a life sentence and the police are always watching.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I kept rereading the same sentence over and over again to make the information stick in my brain. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Then the judge pronounced a new sentence that meant Mr. Caston would immediately be released from prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But it would have been better to rewrite the sentence to convey the contrast from the start, using an unambiguous connective such as alternatively. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was the most wonderful sentence I had ever heard. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was saying, “Put it in a pan with some—” And Richard finished my sentence, “With some lard.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed incapable of uttering a sentence without including an oath or swearword. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This possible growth depends on a number of factors we cannot control, including crime rates and sentencing patterns in various jurisdictions and acceptance of privatization. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Frog-faced Lord Slynt sat at the end of the council table wearing a black velvet doublet and a shiny cloth-of-gold cape, nodding with approval every time the king pronounced a sentence. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Weisberg has a low, raspy voice, baked hard by half a century of nicotine, and she pauses between sentences to give herself the opportunity for a quick puff. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is also what he’s done: given her a life sentence, these memories, these intrusive thoughts, these nightmares. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The statistical evidence of discrimination that Baldus had developed was the strongest ever presented to a court regarding race and criminal sentencing. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The final comma in those last two sentences, the one just before and, can be left out. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judge accepted Ian's plea and then sentenced him to life with no parole. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Before the sentence is even out of my mouth, tears are all over my face. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He sentenced us to kitchen patrol—scrubbing pots and platters all afternoon in the underground kitchen with the cleaning harpies. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He became the first person to be released as a result of the Supreme Court's ban on death-in-prison sentences for juvenile lifers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Just “running out of fuel, sir” at the end of a sentence, preceded by the mitigating “ah.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

After the men were sentenced, they gave interviews that were on the news all the time. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t hear him finish the sentence. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

But here’s the thing: everybody expects the next part of that sentence to be “...and I’m sorry.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

With every second that went past, with every sentence she spoke, she felt a little strength flowing back. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was the longest sentence I had said, and he seemed taken aback. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Offhandedly, he scribbled one of the most important scientific sentences that he would ever write: “Each variety is constant in its own Island.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She told me not to worry, that my father would come back home after serving the customary four weeks’ sentence for being unemployed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Lola spoke, she turned first to Pierrot and halfway through her sentence swung round to finish on Jackson. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She added, “I should wish if possible to avoid giving pain to your fathers religious friends who are deeply attached to him, and I picture to myself the way that sentence would strike them.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not that I can”—before I could finish the sentence something flashed across my mind. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judge told Minerva if she tried one more time, she would be in contempt, and the sentence and fine would be increased. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Astrid swallows the last bit of her sentence and her happy giggle. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The words, the sentences, waver, bang apart, come back together again until at last he's finished. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Or did each symbol represent a word, making it a six-word sentence? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Brown was captured alive, swiftly tried, and sentenced to be hanged a month hence. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She never finishes her sentence; instead she looks from the parents, to the pack behind her, to George and Emmett’s house, then to the nest. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There’s no sense in copying a sentence from every paragraph and pasting them together at the end. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But add either an article, as in A daughter cooked dinner, or a genitive, as in Jenny’s daughter cooked dinner, and the sentence is complete. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The letters spelled out a sentence that pointed them toward the library’s secret exit. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

But what would be the use, this isn’t a jail sentence; there’s no time here that can be done and finished with. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man in Kabati repeated this sentence often to people who walked past his house on their way to the river to fetch water, to hunt, to tap palm wine; and to their farms. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

With every sentence of the interminable prayers, I rubbed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It begins “Dear Louis,” and is followed by a one-word sentence: “Congratulations!” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But then a few years later, rates of execution and death sentencing were once again decreasing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A sentence may elaborate, qualify, or generalize the one that came before. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

When what affects two verbs in the same sentence, the verbs should be alike—both singular or both plural, not one of each: What gives away Phyllis's age is her bad knees. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years, we’ve been the only country in the world that condemns children to life imprisonment without parole; nearly three thousand juveniles have been sentenced to die in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

List on Monday, sentences due Wednesday, test on Friday. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hitler, who had been chatting with Leni Riefenstahl, stepped to the microphone and pronounced the games open in one brief sentence. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The night before my sentencing I wrapped my remaining hash, about two pounds, in plastic bags. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

September 13: Six women were arrested and sentenced to thirty days in the workhouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Three of the men were under death sentence, and the fourth was serving a long prison sentence. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps my wife won’t like London; then the sentence is banishment & degradation into indolent, idle fool.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if the introduction is a complete sentence, especially if it’s a long one, a colon works better. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What about when the sentence becomes a question or a negative statement? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we first looked at Mr. Dill's case a few weeks before his scheduled execution, no court had reviewed critical issues about the reliability of his conviction and sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"All I did was tell the truth, and you have sentenced me to die, just for telling the truth. My time is now but your time will come!" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Two of them are white, both in their early sixties, serving life sentences. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh... Aibileen... you don’t think..An ugly thought is running through my head. I am too shocked to finish my sentence. Aibileen shakes her head. “No no, no ma’am. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the laughter came more frequently, the whispering began to separate out into sentences spoken in a language she did not understand. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ginny must have said that same sentence many times before because she didn’t stutter over any of the words. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Anyone else with even a touch of power would be accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We spend the rest of the period trying to translate the sentence. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

A substantial majority of the AHD Usage Panel accept the so-called fused participle, not just in these complicated sentences but in simple ones like I can understand him not wanting to go. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

A sentence like “Genes are interesting to geneticists” would distinguish my way of thought from Pauling’s. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

You’ve probably heard sentences like this one: I hate these kind of mistakes! Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point, Patrick is spitting out wine between sentences, he’s laughing so hard. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Of the four women, two were sentenced to thirty days in the workhouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Somebody once said that in good writing, the sentences hold hands. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no first word in the sentence—or not as it appeared to her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She looked at the sentence and absently scratched a mosquito bite on her bare leg. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were fined a mere one hundred dollars each and sentenced to 180 days in jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, rewriting a sentence to avoid a “split” makes it ridiculous. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

With budgets busting, more than two dozen states have reduced or eliminated harsh mandatory minimum sentences, restored early-release programs, and offered treatment instead of incarceration for some drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Oh yeah, and he has this habit of beginning every sentence with the word dutchdeefuddy. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

El Viejo could hardly string a sentence together, and some of the time he sat in his room and screamed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could take Spanish one or two words at a time, but it was harder to put full sentences together. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And then it forms this sentence, which blurts out of my mouth about three times too loudly and right into Kristina’s face. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Describing severe mandatory sentences as a bargaining chip is a major understatement, given its potential for extracting guilty pleas from people who are innocent of any crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Would he commute my life sentence of domestic drudgery? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

With most sentences, we don’t give this much thought, and we don't have to. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Big APE radio from Jacksonville was turned to such a high volume that Ben did not hear the first three sentences Sammy spoke to him after he was in the car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s easy to slip only into a sentence carelessly, so get into the habit of using it right in front of the word you want to single out. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dead Chubs wouldn’t smile, spout off rambling sentences, wouldn’t pout, wouldn’t laugh—a dead Chubs was unimaginable. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The CO had drawn his gun but Larson had shot him first—“too many times,” he said—and Larson had been sent back to prison, with a sentence of eight years to life. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of putting periods at the ends of sentences, her mother sighed. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other is to provide her with hints about the major divisions of the sentence into phrases, thus eliminating some of the ambiguity in how to build the tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“You don’t suppose that that spider...” began Mr. Zuckerman—but he shook his head and didn’t finish the sentence. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

She spoke only two sentences: “No, sir, I have not. It is up to my people.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She suggested that I try to make a sentence sound in as many different ways as possible. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Concentrating, I reached for the rhythm of the story thread inside, and I spoke the sentence Nana started every one of her stories with. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I’m hoping his eyes are actually closed because the word hoisting and my polyester work dress do not belong in the same sentence. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Some were also imprisoned or sentenced to hard labor. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He punctuated the sentence with slams of fist against desk. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Any sentence with never have and never will is probably doomed. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I did find it strange that you spent so much time questioning Day. Do you feel sorry for him now? Did you set something up to—” He never gets to finish that sentence. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Since readers tend to link a phrase to the words that came just before it, they will misunderstand a sentence when the writer had a more remote association in mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I shift the words around, trying to form a sentence that makes sense, and when that fails, I move the letters around to see if each one might be an anagram for something else. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She begins one sentence: 'Although I have no idea how I shall usefully fill the remainder of my life . The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you using the front door. Wash, you use complete sentences, and pick up your hat.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the syntax repaired, the sentences are difficult to understand, and the original contexts don’t make them any clearer. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Criminals’ rights were curtailed and stricter sentencing guidelines put in place. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

When we have different things happening at distinctly different times, sentences get more complicated: Elaine says she made tea last Sunday, but she will make coffee next week. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout there was a strange bitterness; an absence of consolatory gentleness; stern allusions to Calvinistic doctrines—election, predestination, reprobation—were frequent; and each reference to these points sounded like a sentence pronounced for doom. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Court found the sentences imposed in those cases “reasonably proportionate” to the offenses committed—and not “cruel and unusual” in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We were sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment with hard labor, but the sentence was suspended for two years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old sentences lurk beneath the mattress, in the rusted coils beneath her back. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I offered no defense, and was sentenced to three days in isolation and deprivation of meals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people overuse it as a way to vary their sentences and avoid using and. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, let’s say Cole is sentenced to some island for a year. What happens after that year if he hasn’t changed? Would he go free to hurt somebody else’s child?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

There was one more sentence: Your notebook wasn’t burned. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

There had been a great collective gasp in the courtroom when de Wet announced that he was not sentencing us to death. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the principles of style that apply within a sentence, such as building an orderly tree and placing given before new information, apply to extended passages as well. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In chapter 4 we looked at the topic of a sentence, namely what that sentence is about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

We met at the house of Dr. Masla Pather, who would later be sentenced to two years in prison for allowing us to meet at his home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that I could barely read what I’d been assigned, barely form a complete sentence in classroom conversations most days—it was more how everyone acted. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

This preposing avoids the monotony of a long string of similar sentences, even though herons are the grammatical subjects of every one. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Okay, you slime. Fifty years off your sentence.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The messenger announces the Emperor’s assassination; Elias is sentenced to death and chained. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Compose a sentence containing the word "insubordination."—Give the opposite of "insubordination"? Ans. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind only snaps back to attention when I hear the end of one of Judith’s sentences: "...and then bring the cards to the Schouwburg." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, we have to read to the end of the sentence to learn that Johnny’s finding the violin isn’t the point. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three men under sentence of death had shallow emotions regarding their own fate and that of their victims. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was consternation among some spectators because they had been unable to hear de Wet’s sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this one sentence keeps floating around in my head. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dashes thrive in weak writing, because when thoughts are confused, it’s easier to stick in a lot of dashes than to organize a smoother sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This idea caught on, even though great literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Milton is bristling with sentences ending in prepositions. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Gestapo officer who—who questioned Verity. And sentenced her.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Every negation requires mental homework, and when a sentence contains many of them the reader can be overwhelmed. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But be warned that some find this grating, especially at the front of a sentence: Due to the hole, Richie threw the suit away. equally as. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed and said the sentence, and many other sentences with only a few words I understood, and Gramps wiped his hands on his apron and then touched them to his heart. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My court-appointed lawyer says they’ll be facing charges, too, but what they say about us might help them get lighter sentences. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing beats the smell of fresh-cut pine, it says, and below the sentence are photographs of three types of fir trees: Douglas, noble, and grand. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Easy translation, since most of the coach’s sentences involved the word kill. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After a round of applause for the cooks—the twins looking like they were being sentenced to a year’s worth of dishwashing—everyone dug in. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The truth was, Luke didn’t need him to finish the sentence. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He then added, “I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In all too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unjust.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Under federal sentencing guidelines, however, the sentencing judge was obligated to impose a fifty-five-year mandatory minimum sentence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Newspaper journalists, mindful of their readers’ attention spans, sometimes go to the other extreme and dice their text into nanoparagraphs consisting of a sentence or two apiece. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we would play half the night, coming up with endless possibilities for questions and answers, only repeating the key word in every sentence. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Here’s me not using faineant in a sentence. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

With his receding hairline, he looks eerie, like he’s presiding over my sentencing. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He dreaded the sick silence between his sentences. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the third sentence the tin soldier sat bolt upright. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Association with the Scholars’ Resistance carries a death sentence. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

One is the son of a defrocked snakehandling pastor who is currently serving a prison sentence. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Her first-born, Uncle Cheeks, was somewhere in a black penitentiary serving a long sentence for burglarizing a white man’s home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she approached, Briony put away her pen and covered her sentence with the corner of a book. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Smith made his case with four sentences: “Get me that horse. He has real stuff in him. I can improve him. Pm positive.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Logos, in the first sentence of St. John’s gospel, is the original Greek for the Word that “was with God and... was God. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The official answer was that the sentence did not contain an error. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He didn't say anything for a minute while the typewriter, which hadn’t let up the whole time, was still tapping out the last few sentences. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Later, when I had learned the full truth about the white man, I reflected many times that the average burglary sentence for a first offender, as we all were, was about two years. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

To illuminate the grammar of a sentence 2. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The fog sucked the tremor of inflection in his voice, and the sentence came out sounding flat, lifeless. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I still can’t even believe it happened. I mean, I thought it would be a disaster, but…” She never finished the sentence. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sentence imposed was four years in prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“And the ten book titles will form a sentence telling us how to get out.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“You may want to join us in here,” he said, using the Bible to punctuate the sentence. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Even when she’s just talking, on the way home, she changes the subject in the middle of a sentence so it’s hard to follow what she’s saying. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just get on with it,” I say, before he tries to finish the sentence. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He’d decipher a phrase, read it over again, pocket it while he worked on the next, until a whole sentence, a whole page was his. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She crossed out the sentence and started over. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she had hardly finished the sentence when the sparrow fell to the ground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the mass of cables drooping behind a desk, the conceptual connections from one sentence to another have a tendency to get gnarled up in a big, snaggly tangle. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I...” started George, but there were no words to finish the sentence. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Yes, everyone in the districts will be watching me to see how I handle this death sentence, this final act of President Snow’s dominance. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was found guilty on all counts, and the judge, sentencing him immediately, gave him six to ten years in prison. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was convicted of multiple charges that triggered a sentence of mandatory life imprisonment without parole. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The vastly different sentences afforded drunk drivers and people convicted of drug offenses speaks volumes regarding who is viewed as disposable—someone to be purged from the body politic—and who is not. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Thurber was once asked by a correspondent: “Why did you have a comma in the sentence, ‘After dinner, the men went into the living-room’?” Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Many levels have been left blank for users to input their own information—words, sentences, phone numbers, even pictures. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

They spoke quickly, in light tones that sounded like birds chattering, and they finished each other’s sentences like twin sisters would. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

"Only as I was being led from the courtroom did the full impact of the sentence hit me," Powers later wrote. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Court's decision meant that no child accused of any crime could ever again be automatically sentenced to die in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Candidates couldn’t even spell the words “grammar” and “sentence”, let alone use them in any well-informed way. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

So now he was waiting to finish his sentence, of which less than two years remained. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as soon as I’d written the first couple of sentences, I reread them and they sounded so pathetic and lost that I just tore the page from my notebook and threw it away. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Jesuits had their public victory and all that remained was to pass sentence—life imprisonment. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Buckminster and Mrs. Hurd would try to keep them talking through the meal but would finally give up when the boys’ yawns got longer than their sentences. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Studies have shown that most of the new inmates swelling the system are nonviolent drug offenders subject to mandatory sentencing laws. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been the custom to sentence criminals to the pits; that practice she agreed might resume, but only for certain crimes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We decided to focus on two subsets of kids to help the Court grant relief if it wasn't ready to ban all life sentences without parole for juveniles. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what ending I had planned for the sentence. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Better to put the second half of the comparison at the end of the sentence: Jordan was one of the best players on the team, if not the best. only. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As chapter 3 demonstrated, the Court has closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the criminal justice process, from stops and searches to plea bargaining and sentencing. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I thought I could tell it in a few sentences,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I said, not knowing where my sentence would end. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

State courts overturned his conviction and death sentence, and he was subsequently acquitted of all charges and released. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Two dots an inch apart, as small and tidy as punctuation marks at the end of a sentence none of us could read. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s got to be a guy you can really trust,” Haldeman cautioned, “because it’s got to be—” Nixon finished the sentence: “Run from the White House without being caught.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As a writer bangs out sentences, she needs to ensure that her readers can reconstruct the coherence relations she has in mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

We were routinely charged for the smallest infractions and sentenced to isolation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or consider the sentence from the Wikipedia entry on Oedipus: The baby, he says, was given to him by another shepherd from the Laius household, who had been told to get rid of the child. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Nature deemed that to be born was an automatic sentence to death, and then brought about that death with vicious consistency. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The end of another sentence...hollyhocks like distilled sunsets and larkspur like concentrate of heaven. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one trying to do a number on Judge Willmore to get his sentence lightened? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I asked and then the whole sentence hit me. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him everything in one long sentence, and then said, “And so, can I cook my fish here, because I haven’t eaten in years.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1948, President Harry S. Truman agreed to suspend their prison sentences. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get back to sentence diagramming,” said Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Once upon a happier time this sentence would have been unintelligible to the Prime Minister, but he was wiser now. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Under the title “Why You Must March,” the organization’s newsletter explained, in two sentences, why participation in the parade was so important. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The first sentence, which says that most Internet users go to news sites in their own country, subverts its attempt to express a resemblance relation in three ways. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And then there were all the people James mentioned in one sentence—a great-grandmother, auntie, cousins—all right here, nearby? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When he did, it was never more than one sentence at a time in that quiet way he had. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We filed a petition to challenge Joe's sentence as unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In Mrs. Baker’s class, we drilled on sentence diagramming. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

In these cases, dropping the s results in a perfectly acceptable sentence: I was annoyed by the people behind me in line being served first. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The jury found him guilty; the judge sentenced him to death by hanging. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Here, for instance, is how you would diagram the sentence In Sophocles’ play, Oedipus married his mother: Oedipus married mother The Reed-Kellogg notation was innovative in its day, but I for one don’t miss it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Her voice gets quieter, so I don’t hear the rest of her sentence. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The sentences in the left-hand column all deny a proposition that it would be reasonable for readers to entertain. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The loss of a good position wasn’t a death sentence, but it could be expected to cause hardship to a black woman in Ann's position. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

After she had learned to decipher that first simple sentence, it didn’t take Sefia long to realize that she would never be able to master the words unless she could reproduce them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Grace wanted to punch herself in the face after reading that sentence. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“When we sell. Do you think the house is really worth anything? The neighbourhood’s a bit . . She didn’t finish the sentence. Joseph held his breath and gripped the bird medallion around his neck. “ The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I rework every sentence a few times before going on to the next, and revise the whole chapter two or three times before I show it to anyone. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He avowed that even if we proved that guerrilla war had not been approved and our policy of sabotage was designed not to sacrifice human life, the state could still impose the death sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if the first sentence had been A tank came roaring around the corner, which refers to an atypical example of a vehicle, a reader would have had a harder time making the connection. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But when he started, the first few minutes, it sounded like a high school essay—topic sentences followed by explanations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Was there no other sentence in the English language? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The only way to outfox Hangman is to think one sentence ahead, and if you see a stammer-word coming up, alter your sentence so you won't need to use it. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I was trembling as I spit out the last forced sentence. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Vikus told the whole tale in ten sentences using a soft voice. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

About 90 percent of those sentenced to prison for a drug offense in Illinois are African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He sucks in a breath and bites off the end of that sentence. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The email was only a couple of sentences. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I mumbled half a sentence of the Latin; he tapped his foot. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A sentence beginning with It is or There is is often a candidate for liposuction: There is competition between groups for resources works just fine as Groups compete for resources. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Here is the last sentence: If Romeo had never met Juliet, he would have been all right. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was my fault; maybe I was too delirious to make real sentences. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As a senior KGB official, Gordievsky knew well the penalty for sharing Soviet secrets with the enemy: a long sentence in a prison camp or, more likely, execution by firing squad. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I know enough guys who’ve gone up for burglary—the usual sentence is five, six years tops. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gey asked Mary to pick up a pen from the table and write a few sentences. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If her father recognized the sentence, if the words reminded him of their time together reading about Incandesto, he didn’t show it. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

They were together constantly, it seemed; they finished each other’s sentences, they talked in a patois of inside jokes and shared references that sometimes she barely understood. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So it was from a look of Dad's and a sentence left unspoken that the sequel to the turtle habit got started. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their sentences were put off so they could continue to fight, and eventually they were both retrained as navigators. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It says Well Researched and Very Interesting and Excellent but at the bottom she also writes, Why are there capital letters in the middle of your sentences? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half of them never showed up, or, when they did, they slept through the lesson or nodded off in the middle of Miss Brown’s carefully parsed sentences. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I might—” the ambition began to form along with the sentence. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they went on they came to the solemn place in which Minos, Europa’s son, the inflexible judge of the dead, was passing the final sentence on the souls before him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I—” “Can you read for the court the last sentence of paragraph four, page four, of the autopsy report you have in front of you?” said Nels Gudmundsson. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was too young for fatherhood then; nonetheless, it had been he who had saved a baby sentenced to die because the litde one was eager, and curious, and lively. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Because rightly or wrongly, I got stuck on one single sentence the woman uttered. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Second, the idea of helping you halve your sentence and getting you back out and at large on the street two years earlier? Not terribly appealing.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

However painful it must have been to predicate the harsh word dead of a beloved sister, no euphemism—has passed away, is no longer with us—could have ended that sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Unlike Mom, Agha Rezaei didn’t pepper his sentences with English words—it was pure Farsi, and a lot harder for me to track. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But their sentences didn’t amount to much, anyway. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The court was then adjourned until the following day, when I would have a chance to address the court in what is known as the plea in mitigation before the magistrate gave his sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some expressions are so common that they're allowed to dangle at the beginning of a sentence, even though they're not connected to anything in particular. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You really have lost your mind,” the man said, but he was already helping Trina climb out the window before he’d finished the short sentence. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Hotel while waiting for my sentencing, I worked over my face in the mirror. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“What’s that, then, his sentence?” said Gaunt, his voice rising angrily. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I managed to keep up, but when he moved on to short complete sentences, I kept making mistakes. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Apparently her self-imposed sentence of unadulterated good-listenership had been fully served. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

You must sentence him simply as an American, equal in the eyes of our legal system to every other American. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Any word releasing breath might be the sentence of death; any word inhaled, be it “is,” or “sweet,” or “the.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He pointed out that Richard hadn’t yet been tried, which made it too early to weigh in on the constitutionality of any sentence he might receive. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The gleam vanished from his eyes as he said: “You’ll be sent back here, to serve out the remainder of your sentence.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

While crime rates fall and the economy prospers, far more people than ever before are getting locked up, mainly due to mandatory sentencing for drug crimes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yes, his sentences come marching out one after another, polished and crisp like soldiers on a parade ground. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He was forever dropping slangy terms into his sentences like dumplings in a pot. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was two things to get nervous about in one sentence! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

George wrote a single sentence on her page: It was exciting to help out with the play. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Only a judge can sentence you,” said Milo, who remembered reading that in one of his schoolbooks. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘This once, you can sleep in Ted’s room, on the lilo where Salim—’ She didn’t finish her sentence. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slow lee two went I. My habit on that path was reciting sentences forward and back, for the concentration improved my walking. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spelling sentences were all Room 5 did manage that morning. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

I had no way of knowing that the key word in that sentence was going to be “flushed.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

That sentence stood between them: I asked you here to shut you up. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And it was like receiving a sentence of death. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I guess you do have a thing about sentence fragments, but I sort of love it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Ms. Smith has us do grammar exercises with sentences we’ve written in our journals. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Although neophyte writers may repeat a simple sentence structure to the point of inanity, most writers go to the opposite extreme and vary their syntax capriciously. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They were sentenced to public punishment by toad. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It sent its stealthy, suckered tentacles inching along the insides of his skull, hoovering the knolls and dells of his memory, dislodging old sentences, whisking them off the tip of his tongue. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Correctional officers had the power to punish young inmates by adding time to their sentences, with the result that California juveniles were locked up almost three times longer than the national average. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A longer prison sentence or possibly the death sentence. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I typed up the articles waiting for me on the Linotype’s tray, double-checking after each sentence that I had made no mistakes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

If he really focused, he could read about two sentences well, but by the time he got to the third or fourth, he’d have forgotten the first. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was serving a two-year sentence for fraud. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several clauses are joined or embedded in a sentence; several sentences make up a paragraph; several paragraphs make up a section, several sections a chapter, several chapters a book. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But by some old, standing arrangement with her psyche, she elected to feel guilty for having seen it, caught it, and sentenced herself to listen to Lane’s ensuing conversation with a special semblance of absorption. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why, but when I talk to teachers and get a little nervous, my voice goes up at the end of every sentence. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

On October 20,1917, Alice Paul was escorted from a courtroom to the District Jail to begin serving a seven-month sentence for obstructing traffic. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

This abjectly simple sentence seemed to disturb Franny rather more than a continued silence would have. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It’s like the landscape is an interrupted sentence, one side dangling in the air, unfinished, and the other, a completely different subject. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

"The only thing I like about The Turn of the Screw is the governess's first sentence." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If I had the sentence, the right words, I would ask her about her family and she could tell me about her daughter and her son. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to photograph some of our clients in order to give the life-without-parole sentences imposed on children a human face. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

All eleven picketers accepted jail sentences rather than paying a fine. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Once Dasch was sentenced to prison, he stopped helping the government. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The result was that 98.4 percent of those serving life sentences under the provision were black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When the insertions arrived in Florence, the covering letter from Riccardi included the sentence, ‘the author may alter or embellish the wording, so long as the substance is preserved’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They believed the defiers would receive sentences of a few weeks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it was the longest sentence I ever heard him speak. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The book was filled with complicated sentences explaining Henrietta’s cells by saying, “its atypical histology may correlate with the unusually malignant behavior of the carcinoma,” and something about the “correlate of the tumor’s singularity.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I watch how Keira makes sure to look up as she reads from her paper and takes deep breaths between sentences like an expert speaker, and I make a mental note to try that. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The language was old-fashioned, and Emily noticed a spelling mistake right off the bat and then another a few sentences later, so she was having trouble getting into the story. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the questions are multiple-choice, while others re quire several sentences to answer. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But when a sentence is lousy, you can take steps to make it more presentable. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I begin, but it appears that I have no more words to extend the sentence. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Celia said it quickly, in a rush, before Dimple had even finished her sentence. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My owl came back with a letter containing one simple sentence: “Tell your husband to refute these allegations about my son once and for all.” Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I’m apologizing for so many things with that sentence, but she doesn't look at me again. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You must put pencil to paper and do something. And I will often answer with a sentence or two.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

When I saw Walter in Pretoria Local just after my sentencing, I urged him to make sure that all my books and notes were removed from the farm. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things get complicated when a pronoun, like any good understudy, takes on different guises, depending on the roles it plays in the sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Type the sentence and see what Raven says.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He looks at the sky and says only the one sentence: “I would go straight on with the harvesting.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He expressed a great deal of joy in that sentence, and the other players agree with him. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

"Why you calling me? Why don't you call your..." and before he could even finish his sentence, he answered his own question. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Before the judge entered, I said to one lawyer, “We seem to be getting sentenced because of those girls.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A voice floating in the air scratches a sentence in vuvv and then translates, “Is breakfast included with the double king-size room?” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Garden paths can turn the experience of reading from an effortless glide through a sentence to a tedious two-step of little backtracks. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Her sentence of death was once more commuted to transportation, this time for life. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of people were now entitled to pursue new sentences, and most were in states where they had no clear right to counsel. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s strange how good Amil is at chess since he can barely write a sentence. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Before the sentence was to be passed, there were two pleas in mitigation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or did each symbol represent a word, making it a six-word sentence? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There’s always a sentence that says something like this: Airline policy clearly states passengers age twelve and over may travel with no adult supervision as long as they have a valid boarding pass. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The classifications generally ran parallel to the length of one’s sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting to be sentenced—not waiting for execution, as I’m not without hope. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We eventually won a favorable ruling from a federal judge who overturned his conviction and sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The judge sentenced him to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I needed solid proof, the sort of bloody evidence that would convince a judge to deal out a death sentence. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“That’s fine. One could only wish that you took as easily to diagramming sentences. Now, your arm position, and then your head position, and then we’ll get to breathing patterns.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It is not uncommon for people to receive prison sentences of more than fifty years for minor crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I think about the first time I ever saw a birch tree; about the last time I saw Julian; about the first sentence that I ever learned in Greek. χαλεπá τá καλá. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She did not go on with her sentence, she patted me on the shoulder. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Just as the basic rules for putting together sentences and paragraphs help people understand each other, knowing what to expect from a piece of music helps people understand and like it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“That means their trial,” he explained, “except there won’t be a jury in juvenile court, remember. Master Williams will listen to everyone present their sides then she’ll decide the sentence—their disposition.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Needless to say, the passage made little sense to them, as I expect it made little sense to you, and they could remember few of the sentences. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Always suspect an ing word of dangling if it’s near the front of a sentence; consider it guilty until proved innocent. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once an entry is in, all I have to do is push one button and the whole sentence will be spoken for me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

While Chapman and the state officers connected with the case now readily acknowledged Walter's innocence, they were unwilling to accept any responsibility for his wrongful prosecution and death sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was the longest prison sentence in modern British history. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Review in the Supreme Court is rare enough, but the possibility that the Court might create constitutional relief for children sentenced to die in prison made this opportunity even more thrilling. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A weight settles on my chest, like each sentence she speaks is piling there. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Dad behaved himself pretty well during the tea, but on later visits he’d sometimes interrupt Mother’s parents in the middle of sentences and go over and pick up Mother from her chair. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex’s mouth starts and stops several silent sentences before he points to the door. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“In every sentence they menace our poor veins. Their language is as frightful to the ears of the alarmed multitude as the raven’s croak to those of the sickly flock.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

At a hearing, I asked the judge to reconsider Evan's sentence in light of his age. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Some federal judges, including conservative judges, have quit in protest of federal drug laws and sentencing guidelines. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

More than a dozen of our Louisiana clients who were sentenced as juveniles to die in prison are now at home. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was the angels who took apart the prisons and the police; who held councils prosecuting the former officers who’d shot children and murdered people, sentencing them to restitution and rehabilitation. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

State officials added five more years to Joe's sentence because they claimed to have miscalculated his "good time." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I wonder about things like the sounds and scents that surrounded Thoreau as he wrote each sentence and paragraph. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

This time the police arrested thirty-five protesters, who were sentenced to between six days and six months, depending on whether they had been arrested previously. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

This feels like I've been imprisoned for a crime and I'm awaiting sentencing. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ten days later, Judge Cox announced his sentence, speaking directly to Guiteau. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As he recalled in My Early Life, “I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence— which is a noble thing. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

But three subsequent United States Supreme Court decisions had put strict limits on the sentences that juveniles can receive, eliminating death sentences and many sentences of life without the possibility of parole, sometimes called LWOP. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

For him it was equivalent to starting a sentence with “You know,” or “Let me tell you.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In 91 percent of these cases, judges replaced life verdicts from juries with death sentences. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Commander Jameson," he says, "are you ready for him to proceed to sentencing?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The evidence confirmed his innocence and Mr. Hinton became the 152nd person in America exonerated and proved innocent after having been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sixteen years earlier, on August 20, 1947, a U.S.- led war tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, had sentenced seven Nazi doctors to death by hanging. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

This cast a dim glow on Liyana’s mother, who suddenly had trouble finishing sentences and meals. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Courts also had rejected claims that crack sentencing laws were racially discriminatory, largely on the grounds that the Supreme Court’s decision in McCleskey v. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the cases where the Supreme Court had previously granted relief under the Eighth Amendment, the number of sentences challenged usually totaled fewer than a hundred or so nationwide. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I listened intensely, aware of the form and movement of sentences and grasping the now subtle rhythmical differences between progressions of sound that questioned and those that made a statement. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see nothing romantic in a death sentence. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes would have creeps in where had belongs, especially in sentences with wish or if. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may help you to know that our letters of rejection are usually no more than three sentences long. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was only one sentence, but she was out of time. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She also taught me to write, by which I mean not simply organizing a set of sentences into a series of paragraphs, but organizing them as a means of investigation. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“What movie?” she asked, since Rishi had never completed his sentence. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Instead of finishing his sentence, David just sighed and shook his head as five pairs of eyes stared at him. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Ultimately, we were able to get sentences that meant they could both be released after serving a few more years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That was what happened to Grisha who got found in the wrong place at the wrong time—a life sentence of slavery or worse. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I can't tell for sure because they're talking at the same time, interrupting each other and throwing in my name every other sentence to grab my attention. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I threw on some clothes while Grover tried to make a complete sentence, but he was too stunned, too out of breath. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the movie, the young girl who's run away from the palace has been captured, and now she's on her knees before the king, waiting for her death sentence. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’ll court-martial me and sentence me to death by firing squad. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Terrified that the same thing would happen to them, sixty-five others entered plea bargains and were given sentences for up to twenty-one years in prison. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“I say . . .” he began; but the sentence ended prematurely in a squeal. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My King, my lord and my uncle. Is it the court’s will that I pronounce sentence upon this recreant traitor?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were arrested and convicted, and both were sentenced to two years in prison for violating Alabama's racial integrity laws. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My advice is to reword the sentence: Somebody forgot a coat. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Equally important to understand is this: Merely reducing sentence length, by itself, does not disturb the basic architecture of the New Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I would open the books and read, while filling my composition books with notes on my reading, new vocabulary words, and sentences of my own invention. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Wow, she just used impudent in a sentence. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

One is that the words are sometimes ordered wrong, kind of like the sentence went into the dryer and got all jumbled. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The question mark is the raised eyebrow at the end of a sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Point out the double sense of the word "expedition" in the following sentences: "With winged expedition, swift as lightning."—Milton. "The expedition of Cortez miserably failed."—Prescott. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

The typical mandatory sentence for a first-time drug offense in federal court is five or ten years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Over and over again he wrote each paragraph, each sentence, to explain navigation to the man before the mast. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mouth hangs open waiting for the rest of the sentence to come out. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tony was charged as the shooter and had avoided a possible death sentence by pleading guilty to felony murder. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear to string sentences into strands of thought, or to weave those strands into ideas. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The import of the remark was clear to his audience: it meant that two young soldiers, who had been standing trial for the murder of a Kansas railroad worker, had received the ultimate sentence. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cecilia was lost to the events of ten minutes before and could not have composed a simple sentence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But it became immediately clear that their extreme, unjust sentences were just one of the problems that had to be overcome. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Each charge also contained a hate-crime clause that would increase Richard’s sentence by an additional one to three years in state prison. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This has been a life infinitely more difficult than serving a prison sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No native speaker of the English language could diagram this sentence. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They were free to determine both the crime and the sentence, and references to cellmates were strongly encouraged. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Marshall was thirty years old, sentenced to 150 years to life for taking part in a robbery of a Brooklyn bodega in which his partner had killed the owner. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 2.3: This melody has four phrases, one for each sentence of the text. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The door was flung open before he’d finished his last sentence. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The judge immediately released the women who were considered too frail to continue to serve their sentences. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She wrote other things too, words with smooth bell-like syllables, passages she wanted to memorize, but she always returned to the same sentence. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was then that it occurred to her that her clumsiness was not the first victory of decrepitude and darkness but a sentence passed by time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She was silent for a long time and then she continued Adam’s sentence as though there had never been an interval, “He doesn’t think his father loves him. But you love him—you always have.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A wide assortment of children's rights advocates, lawyers, and mental health experts were watching closely when we asked the Court to declare life-without-parole sentences imposed on children unconstitutional. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I told the Court that the United States is the only country in the world that imposes life imprisonment without parole sentences on children. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Contrite, he copped a plea to a single felony count and on October 10, 1990, some two weeks after McCandless arrived in Carthage, began serving a four- month sentence in Sioux Falls. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All your sentences would jumble up like a giant knot if you opened your mouth. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

When I’m finished, the man recording it taps out my last sentences on his screen, the glass lighting up with letters where his fingers touch it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I was jarred and shocked by the style, the clear, clean, sweeping sentences. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes returned to French sentences I found I couldn’t translate. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Oedipus who killed Laius, for example, takes it for granted that someone killed Laius, the only question being who; the main clause of the sentence informs us who the who is. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

This meant that ordinary sentences and phrases had been given secret meanings, agreed upon in advance. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The other three sentenced to hang are all part of Booth’s inner circle. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dasch was sentenced to thirty years in prison, and Burger was sentenced to life in prison. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

They are generally charged with misdemeanors and typically receive sentences involving fines, license suspension, and community service. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Which word in that sentence do you not understand?” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

It was in Kimberley during the Defiance Campaign that one of the ANC’s leading members was sentenced to lashes by the local magistrate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing to know about parentheses is that they can enclose a whole sentence standing alone, or something within a sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was trying to read quickly, but Brandon was always a few sentences ahead of her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The new information in each sentence is about how the herons react to cold weather. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Once again, we might return to our analogy to an English sentence. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A few years earlier, we won the release of Phillip Shaw, who was fourteen when he was improperly convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in Missouri. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The man was listening and apparently not going to interrupt him, so Milkman ended his sentence lamely with: “Can you help me?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every other night they woke us to sign the documents sentencing us to twenty-five years. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He came and diagrammed a few sentences for her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If a death sentence was passed, we did not want to hamper the mass campaign that would surely spring up. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With that, he modified Richard’s sentence from seven years to five years. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Arrested at school the following day, Richard will be charged with two felonies, each with a hate-crime clause that will add time to his sentence if he is convicted. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My lawyer left me, saying, “The foreman of the jury is going to announce the verdict. You’ll only be brought in for the passing of sentence.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Now, parents who prevented their children from joining the Hitler Youth were threatened with heavy prison sentences. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When a sentence sounds nice, reads well, and is easy to follow, its length is just right. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not finish the sentence, but sighed and closed his eyes again. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He wanted Master to keep talking, so he could listen to the sonorous voice, the musical blend of English words in his Igbo sentences. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was reading Freud now sentence by sentence. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Yet it has been changes in our laws—particularly the dramatic increases in the length of prison sentences—that has been responsible for the growth of our prison system, not increases in crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He wanted to ask her what Cara and Joey had said about this newspaper they wanted to print, but before he could get a sentence started, she was talking again. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after the first issue was printed, the Revolution’s benefactor, George Francis Train, went to England and ended up in a British jail with a one-year sentence for speaking out in favor of Irish rebels. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Joseph, you know . . . there isn’t anything . . .” Florent squeezed Joseph’s hand again, but he didn’t finish the sentence. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Normally any conversation that includes the phrase “bodily functions” and me in the same sentence would have me burning with embarrassment. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

This time Marigold managed to get out a full sentence. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And I'm giving you that last sentence just to show that you can too talk and learn at the same time. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was the sort of fellow who started a lot of sentences with a laugh and an unnecessary apology, like I’m sorry, I'll be there at five. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It said what Jaden was talking about before, how current resident sentences would all go full term from now on, and in some cases they could even be extended for consistent misbehavior. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was given a mandatory death-in-prison sentence after his jury was illegally told that he had to prove his innocence beyond a reasonable doubt and the State introduced impermissible evidence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Those records are sealed, but whatever they contained led her to give him a sentence of only fifteen years out of a possible thirty. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Take the second sentence in the preceding paragraph, in which I switched from herons to birds. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“And those boys told us the ‘criminal’ was going to be tried and sentenced on Saturday! The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A coherent text is one in which the reader always knows which coherence relation holds between one sentence and the next. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The last sentence now read, “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her eyes, we were a class of “bad kids,” though we had no guidance and no structure and had been sentenced to a grim, underlit room in the basement of the school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At any rate, it made her shift uncomfortably and push at her bangs until she remembered two of Trotter’s trusty sentences for emergency use and offered both of them. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was an emasculation, a sentence, and this—what he was feeling now—this torture was his punishment for breaking her ridiculous vase. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I made fun of him because I didn't want him to know how fast my heart was pounding to hear him say the words love and you in the same sentence. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"They'd be better than-" He would not name people and Sam finished the sentence for him by nodding along the beach. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Promise to say at least one complete sentence today.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had known each other for more than fifteen years, and had spent their summers in proximity, but in all that time they had exchanged only a handful of sentences. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Once I get to the part about the banquet and what I think is going to happen, the Roach interrupts me so many times I can barely get a sentence out. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He stated the matter simply: if I recognized the legitimacy of the Transkei government and was willing to move there, my sentence would be dramatically reduced. proposal, and again I turned him down. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many other sentences, especially for violent crime, were lengthened. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Her uncle’s last sentence had three stinky Hs in it. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He told Mother to go back to the white administrator and say one simple sentence: “Bishop Sherman asked me to tell you he would like me to have a job.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he spoke about what he had done, how he felt, then he fell apart, as he did with the next sentence. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But to tell the truth, it was as if I’d been served my sentence on a silver platter. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her final sentence—“We are here to argue that racial disparities in the US criminal justice system are largely due to racial profiling”—a murmur trickles through the audience. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Maybe those people don’t want to use topic sentences. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had sat in the pews of different courtrooms for months, and the emotion of watching the sentencing of the final defendant in the slaying of her husband was overwhelming. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Numerous states now have some type of mandatory sentencing for this offense—typically two days in jail for a first offense and two to ten days for a second offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He frowned wildly and did not complete his sentence; my face burned in shame. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Three weeks into her sentence, more than forty women, ranging in age from nineteen to seventy-three, protested Paul’s treatment by marching through the streets of Washington, DC. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

His final sentences were still ringing between the columns. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But because the evidence was circumstantial, and because Bryce’s family was rich and powerful with lots of influence in New Rome, he’d got away with the lighter sentence of banishment. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Of course, he ends up by being executed or sentenced for life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

You notice that she mentioned her beauty, intelligence, and popularity twice in one sentence? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The uproar among the gallery made me forget for a moment that I would be going to prison to serve what was then the stiffest sentence yet imposed in South Africa for a political offense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, that is easily the weirdest sentence I have ever written. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think we—” I flashed Lorraine a dirty look, and she never finished her sentence. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the federal system, adults who unintentionally commit arson-murder where more than one person is killed usually receive sentences that permit release in less than twenty-five years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That night, after a discussion among ourselves, Walter, Govan, and I informed counsel that whatever sentences we received, even the death sentence, we would not appeal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn hadn’t entirely understood what the sign had meant about a “trial and sentencing,” or why anyone would call his mother a criminal. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Naomi’s sentences go up extra high at the end, like a squeaky toy. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But then at the end of that sentence he wrote, “Fun!” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Animalculæ.—Compose a sentence containing the word "microscope." New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had attempted several careers, as soldier, ranch hand, mechanic, thief, the last of which had earned him a sentence of three to five years in Kansas State Penitentiary. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her poster about the forbidden word had quietly disappeared from the bulletin board, and kids were not staying after school writing sentences anymore. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Larson asked whether I didn’t think it was wrong when companies had something to gain by seeing people sentenced to prison—in other words, when they had a stake in their failure. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not get over the feeling that the young men he passed to the army were under sentence of death. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The inmates waited for their sentences to run out, and the officers waited for retirement. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z