simple sentence
noun
a sentence having only one clause, as I saw her the day before yesterday.
simple sentences
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pluralof simple sentence.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Then she moves to simple sentences like “I have a pencil. I have a computer. I have a black computer,” Testerman said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
Indurain, speaking after Pantani's death in 2004, summed up the next five years in two simple sentences:
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023
No tackler could trip him up but, on the campaign trail, Walker struggled to break free of the grip of simple sentences.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2022
Ishiguro does both less and more: Using fairly simple sentences, he defamiliarizes the human condition.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2021
Tom, age 10, was mute when he came to the Esther B. Marinoff, but now he speaks in simple sentences and reads at a third-grade level, the caption reads.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
