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:

    “In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Nor had I erred in my calculations—nor had I endured in vain. I at length felt that I was free.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)