declarative sentence
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After a tour of her laboratory and MRI scanner, dialogue about the frontal cortex and the mysteries of synapses, she offered a simple declarative sentence: “We are our brains.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025
A proposition or statement is a declarative sentence with a truth value—that is, a sentence that is either true or false.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
In his left he holds a hand-painted sign etched with four words, one declarative sentence: “I did not forget.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2021
The power of his prose was the lean declarative sentence.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2017
She said finally, very simply, in a declarative sentence devoid of any but its obvious meaning, "No, I can't see that that is so very funny."
From Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield
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