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:

    “New York state sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse. And they got no windows in the workhouse. You know, in the old days they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker.”
    —John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)

    “What though the traveler tell us of the ruins of Egypt, are we so sick or idle that we must sacrifice our America and today to some man’s ill-remembered and indolent story? Carnac and Luxor are but names, or if their skeletons remain, still more desert sand and at length a wave of the Mediterranean Sea are needed to wash away the filth that attaches to their grandeur. Carnac! Carnac! here is Carnac for me. I behold the columns of a larger
    and purer temple.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)