balanced sentence
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“We believe the court appropriately tempered justice with mercy here, and entered a balanced sentence that properly took into account the Kruses’ larger life story, not just the charges filed in this case,” Smith said.
From Washington Times • Feb. 5, 2015
Each balanced sentence, each self-lacerating perception seems to be an end in itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the same paragraph find a balanced sentence.
From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)
Therefore, in the text of his history, we find continual evidence of the eighteenth century literary manner,—the balanced sentence, the inevitable adjective, the studied antithesis, and the elaborate parallel.
From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston
Once more the colonel was checked, but this time the alteration in his face was no more than a comma's pause in a long balanced sentence.
From Gunman's Reckoning by Brand, Max
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