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Sentence variety handout:
The roses smiled back at the shine of the moon, blooming under her light.

100 Beautiful sentences:
“His voice traveled like a drug dripped down the spiraling canals of their ears until they had forgotten everything, until they had forgotten their own names, until they turned and offered themselves up to him, their bodies sweet and soft as marzipan.”

– Ann Patchett

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Sentence Variety Handout
"Frightened, the boy tried hard to clean his hands full of blood..."

100 Beautiful Sentences
"They were watching, out there past men’s knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”

– Cormac McCarthy

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Sentence Variety Handout
1. The stray dog quickly ate the food like a wolf in the wild.

100 Beautiful Sentences
1. “Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
– Jose Saramago

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Sentence Variety Handout
- Injured, the player pushed through the pain and continued to help her team win the championship.
100 Beautiful Sentences
- “They were all scarecrows, blown about under the murdering sunball with empty ribcages.”
- Cynthia Ozick

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Sentence Variety Hand Out
- Although she hated sports, she tried out for the basketball team.

100 Beautiful Sentences
- “We were all a little drunk with spring, like the fat bees reeling from flower to flower, and a strange insurrectionary current ran among us.”

– Tobias Wolff

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Sentence Variety Handout
1. Beside the church steps, someone sat and wept.

100 Beautiful Sentences
“When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all — cash, booze, and a wife — he couldn’t be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.”

– Denis Johnson

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Sentence Variety Handout
- The drunk guy danced on the roof like a crown.

100 Beautiful Sentences
- “In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.”

– Alice Munro

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Sentence Variety handout:
Scared, ashamed, and thoughtless, the kids did not know what they got themselves in to.

100 Beautiful Sentences:
“Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish.”

– Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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“The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons — it was systemic and it was complete.”

– Gary Shteyngart

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Sentence Variety Handout:
- In a small town, an ice cream shop with bright lights was filled with laughter from customers.
100 Beautiful Sentences:
- "He had no right to be there, he had already been profoundly changed, he was no good at small talk, she was half naked, it was dawn and he loved her.”

- Mark Helprin

– Mark Helprin

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Sentence Variety Handout
The palm trees swayed like graceful dancers in the wind.

100 Beautiful Sentences
-“Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.”

– Anthony Doerr

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Sentence Variety Handout:
- The plate shattered on the ground as the dog leapt over the dinner table.

100 Beautiful Sentences
- “And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it.”

– Paul Harding

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Sentence Variety Handout:
- The ocean chased the little girls running through the waves.
100 Beautiful Sentences
-  “And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just holding each other, while the wind kept blowing and blowing at us, tugging our clothes, and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us from being swept away into the night.”

– Kazuo Ishiguro

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Sentence Variety Handout:
- The miserable man, who was homeless and broke, was looking for opportunity to get life back on track.

100 Beautiful Sentences
- "We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves."

– Michael Ondaatje

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Sentence Variety Handout:
- Tired, they waited in silence for the bus to arrive.
100 beautiful sentences
- "“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”- Jose Saramago

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Sentence Variety Handout
- On the edge of the city had a tall building that no one dared enter.

100 Beautiful Sentences
“The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.” - Roberto Bolano

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sentence variety handout:
- I ran to my room, threw off my backpack, and went to sleep.

100 beautiful sentence
- "In any case, at a certain point as she wandered out among the galaxies, among the whirling particles and ineffable numbers, something leaked in her mind, smudging the text of the cosmos, and she was lost"-  Deborah Eisenberg

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Sentence Variety Handout
- A drive through the empty hills, only a few houses in sight, but still in the middle of nowhere.

100 Beautiful Sentences
“The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons — it was systemic and it was complete.”

– Gary Shteyngart

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1. The song spoke to me in such a calm gentle tone almost as if it was whispering in my ear.
2. “The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.”
Elena Ferrante

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Sentence Variety Handout:
He ran. Someone chasing after him. He hid, unsure wether he was truly safe or not.

100 Beautiful Sentences:
“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
– Jose Saramago

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Sentence Variety Handout
- Flowers died. As the bees disappeared, so did the garden they once cared for.

100 Beautiful Sentences
“The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos — the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path.”

– Elizabeth Gilbert

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“It didn’t matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn’t heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”

– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
A little preview of things to come. This sentence reminds me of the famous last line of a famous American novel you read last year.

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100 Beautiful Sentences
“The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.”

– Roberto Bolano

Sentence Variety Handout
"Although the boy was hungry, he waited until he got home to eat."

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100 Beautiful Sentences:
-"Lizards skit like quick beige sticks".
-Richard Beard
My sentence:
-Why couldn't be I be the first child and not the youngest in my family.

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1. Sam, the silly boy, stupidly slid his hand under the cyan sliding door.

2. “We all owe death a life.”

– Salman Rushdie

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1. “Men are like armored things, mountainous assemblages of armor and leather, masonry even, which you are told will self-dismantle if you touch the right spot, and out will flow passionate attention.”

– Norman Rush

2. It stopped. They knew. The bomb exploded, killing everyone.

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"Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.”
This is from a favorite crazy author of mine, Jonathan Swift. It appears in his "Modest Proposal," which is a satirical tract about improving the situation of the Irish people in the C18th. Why is this sentence startling?

I like the syntax (word order) of this one's opening:
“Profound was Gary’s relief the next morning as he bumped and glided, like a storm-battered yacht, into the safe harbor of his work week.” Jonathan Franzen

Why is this syntax original or surprising?

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Sentence Variety Handout:
- From outside in the hallway, you can hear the classroom full of laughter from students.

100 Beautiful Sentences
-  “And even if I recognized her strategy, her sneak attack, I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections.” – Amy Tan

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Sentence Variety handout
They ran onto the stage, looked out into the audience, and began their moving monologue.

100 beautiful sentences
“As she picked up her shoes from the closet and tiptoed from the room, she felt, for a vertiginous moment, an unlawful excitement.”

– Paula Fox

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Sentence Variety handout:
-The girl performed on stage like a graceful swan.
100 Beautiful Sentence in Literature:
-“The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.” -Roberto Bolano

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Sentence Variety Handout:
Stealthily, sneakily, and slowly, the raccoon took food from the trash can.

100 beautiful sentences:
“The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons — it was systemic and it was complete.”
– Gary Shteyngart

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Sentence Variety:
The sun jumped out from the clouds and sang a song of happiness.

100 Beautiful Sentences:
“He was sensitive to lives that had, beneath their surface, like a huge rock or shadow, a glory that would be discovered, that would rise one day to the light.”

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Sentence Variety Handout
- My sister stumbled home, threw her purse, and jumped into bed after a long day at work.

100 Beautiful Sentences
-  “In our world, that’s the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it’s been put together is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you’re alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.” – Muriel Barbery

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Sentence Variety Handout
- Taylor Swift is releasing an album on October 21, 2022 called Midnights. (name)

100 Beautiful Sentence
- “And I still have other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into limbless monsters of pain.” by: Vladimir Nabokov

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Sentence Variety Handout:
-The little puppy, who was cute and fluffy, toddled in the playpen.

100 Beautiful Sentences
"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”

– Jose Saramago

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Sentence Variety Handout:
-"Why can't I be in bed by the fire snuggled in blankets instead of being at school.

100 Beautiful Sentences:
“He’d say “I love you” to every man in the squad before rolling out, say it straight, with no joking or smart-ass lilt and no warbly Christian smarm in it either, just that brisk declaration like he was tightening the seat belts around everyone’s soul.”

– Ben Fountain

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Sentence Variety Handout
1. Jumping up and down for joy, sara felt happier than ever.
Beautiful Sentence
2. “Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”

– Jose Saramago

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Sentence Variety Handout
1.  Although they were children, they managed to solve the hardest math problem in the world.

Beautiful Sentence
2.
“Twenty were jammed together on the stoop, tiers of heads made one central head, and the wings rested along the banisters, a raggedy monster of boys studying her approach.”
– Leonard Michaels

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Sentence Variety Handout
They paused. Footsteps were heard from upstairs, but they were the only ones in the house.

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” (sentences of 3)
- Maya Angelou

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1. “Men are like armored things, mountainous assemblages of armor and leather, masonry even, which you are told will self-dismantle if you touch the right spot, and out will flow passionate attention.”

2. Why didn't I get a goose?

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Sentence Variety Handout:
-According to the weather report, there was a big heat wave in California.

100 Beautiful Sentences:
-“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.” Jose Saramago

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Sentence Variety Handout:
- The car engine sighed after driving consistently for several hours, resting after a long journey home.

100 Beautiful Sentences:
-"Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders where they grow.”" -Barbara Kingsolver