loose sentence

American  

noun

1. a sentence that does not end with the completion of its main clause, but continues with one or more subordinate clauses or other modifiers.

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Etymology

Origin of loose sentence

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

With their loose sentence structure and the melodic give and take allowing a team approach to conversation I knew they were Guyanese.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

Compare the following periodic sentence with the loose sentence under §87: Napoleon, feeling his weakness, and trying to win back popular favor by concession after concession, had, at his fall, nearly restored parliamentary government.

From Practical Grammar and Composition by Wood, Thomas

Further praise E.K. grants the author because he avoids loose sentence structure and affects the oratorical period.

From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen

A loose sentence formed with but can always be converted into a periodic sentence formed with although, as illustrated under Rule 4.

From A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by James, Juliet Helena Lumbard

With this line ends the long, loose sentence that began with line 37.

From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John