Example Sentences

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Another 15% of those surveyed say they use baby talk and 4% say they purposely use syntactically imperfect or grammatically incorrect phrases like “Whatchoo got dere?”

From Washington Times • Oct. 3, 2022

Dwight D. Eisenhower was sometimes syntactically challenged when speaking extemporaneously, but he came to the presidency with experience wielding executive power — conducting coalition warfare — and sometimes his foggy sentences disguised his guile.

From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2021

This is, after all, a franchise in which the most indelible character remains Yoda, the wee, far-out philosophizer with the tufted pate and syntactically distinct truth telling: “Wars not make one great.”

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2017

“Distribution” is a noun, and syntactically it belongs with “shipment,” also a noun, as an object of the preposition “for.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 17, 2017

A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah