balanced sentence

American  

noun

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

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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.

From Washington Times

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.

From New York Times

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 Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg