balanced sentence

noun

1. a sentence consisting of two or more clauses that are parallel in structure.

Example Sentences

“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.

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What I’m left with is a reminder that Tolstoy sacrificed truth in favor of a balanced sentence — happy families and unhappy families alike are all happy, or not, in their own different and complex ways, and very few of us are in a position to pass judgement on one another.

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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.

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Each balanced sentence, each self-lacerating perception seems to be an end in itself.

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In the same paragraph find a balanced sentence.

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