Example Sentences

The twangy notes of the guitar reverberated through the small music venue.

My memory of childhood summers is filled with trips to the beach and ice cream cones.

1: A man that jumps to conclusions without researching the facts is considered brash.

The politician had a misquote from his opponent.

birds are flying very gently

The judge slammed his hammer down and deafened the poor typist sitting beside him.

The family was deafened by a loud crash as the roof caved in during the storm.

"As I walked into the kitchen, I could DISTINCTLY smell the smell of chocolate chip cookies cooking in the oven."

A recent development is the ongoing rescue of the Chilean miners.

A community is a group of people living in the same area or sharing common interests, values, or goals. It is characterized by members who interact and support each other, fostering a sense of belonging and social connection.

My friends are really nosy.

Peter was a nosy boy; he always would always bother others about their personal matters.

In some dialects, it is pronounced the same as "wooden."

The farmers in the Aztec empire used chinampas, which were artificial islands in lakes, to grow crops.

At school, Mariella began to snivel when she found out that she failed her math test.

The colonists placed palisade walls around their town to obstruct the natives from raiding them.

The chatter of the hamster gave no peace and I persisted through the night without any sleep.

Unknowingly, the trumpet player blew into a clogged instrument and produced no sound, much to his embarrassment.

"Nun" is a conjunction used to introduce a final negative statement, contrasting with a previous affirmative statement. For example, "I had planned to go to the beach, but now it's raining, so nun I'll stay home."

The cosmopolite set foot in almost thirty different countries before he was finally laid to rest in a country different from his birth nation.

The Moche society was structured hierarchically with a ruling elite at the top, followed by artisans, farmers, and laborers. The elite had control over resources, while commoners worked on agricultural lands and in craft production. Status was also indicated by access to luxury goods and elaborate burial practices.

Institutional sexism is perpetuated through a system of oppression that is composed of institutional discrimination, cultural bias, and personal prejudice. Many of the rationalizations for sexism stem from the biases we all have about sex roles that result from the historical inequities women have faced throughout time. Because women played the major role in families for child rearing, housekeeping and food preparation, present day ideas about the role women should play are still influenced by the past. As more women have entered the workplace (allowing a burgeoning middle class to evolve int he USA), fewer families have stay at home mothers and women represent 50% of the college student population at this time. However, there are still notions that women should limit their career ambition and make marriage and motherhood a priority. Another major influence on sexism is our culture of sexual abuse and predatory behavior that goes unchecked in many families and communities. Add to this the make up, fashion, diet, plastic surgery and pornography industries and you have half the population more worried about looking fat that whether we receive an equitable wage or angry about the fact that we have no decent affordable childcare.

1 in 4 women is raped between the age of 18 and 24. And what do we teach our sons? What does desparate housewives have to offer women? How do media such as sex and the city and nip and tuck impact young women today? Why are eating disorders so rampant in our communities?

Why do women earn 73 cents to every man's dollar?

Why are people more interested in Sarah Palin's wardrobe and make up expenses, her motherhood values than her mind, her values, her job experience, her ethics?