Sentence Length

Sentence length may refer to:

  • In linguistics, the length of a Sentence (linguistics)
  • In penology, the length of a Sentence (law)
  • In music, the length of a Sentence (music)

Famous quotes containing the words sentence and/or length:

    “A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plow instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “They raise their minds by brooding over and embellishing their sufferings, from one degree of fervid exaltation and dreary greatness to another, till at length they run amuck entirely, and whoever meets them would do well to run them thro’ the body.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)