List of linguistic example sentences

Sentences with unexpected endings.

• She spread the bread with socks.

“To borrow the words of one Yelp reviewer, walking into Reality itself feels ‘like a Decemberists concert’”

“The Universe was cleaned every four to eight weeks.”

“The more yams a woman receives, the more powerful and rich she is.“

“It has nothing specifically to do with the author of Slate Star Codex, liberal ankle-biters, or with any kind of Less Wrongist. If the latter were ignorant of the invention of the wheel, they would call it something like the algorithmic rotation-utility device (ARUD) and credit its invention to Yudkowsky circa 2010.”

Although a mundane subject in the hands of some great poets can be raised to the level of art, such as On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer by John Keats or Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes by Thomas Gray, others merely produce bizarre poems on bizarre subjects, an example being James McIntyre, who wrote mainly of cheese.

In an article published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine in December 2003, Lennart Bondeson and Anne-Greath Bondeson from Malmo University Hospital in Sweden, argued that the abnormality in God’s neck is a goiter.

“The death squads were initially autonomous from the Salvadoran military and composed of civilians  - the FAR for example had developed out of a Boy Scout troop.”

“The girl found the foot when she picked up a shoe and opened the sock.“

TIL: JRR Tolkien’s great granddaughter, Ruth Tolkien, is the only blind person in the UK to be a competitive fencer. She is currently ranked the #186th best fencer in the country.