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)

    “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)