Example Sentences

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In her syntactically slippery second rendering, two ideas interlink.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2022

Another 15% of those surveyed say they use baby talk and 4% say they purposely use syntactically imperfect or grammatically incorrect phrases like “Whatchoo got dere?”

From Washington Times • Oct. 3, 2022

Dwight D. Eisenhower was sometimes syntactically challenged when speaking extemporaneously, but he came to the presidency with experience wielding executive power — conducting coalition warfare — and sometimes his foggy sentences disguised his guile.

From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2021

As always, it is astounding to see a message this opaque and syntactically clipped and imagine the median U.S. voter trying to figure out what it means.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2020

The “run-on” line ends with a preposition or other word which syntactically requires the next line.

From Philip Massinger by Cruickshank, A. H.