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
He traced a certain analogy between that threat and Cappy Ricks' simple declarative sentence, and finally he decided to take Mr. Murphy into his confidence.
From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
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