Sentences

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Puzzles

• beheadIs there a sentence that remains a sentence when all its words are beheaded?
• charadesA ....... surgeon was .......
• clerihewsWhat is a clerihew, and what are some good examples? New
• contradictory.proverbsWhat are some proverbs that contradict one another?
• emphasisList some sentences that change meaning when the emphasis is moved.
• garden.pathParse these well formed, grammatically correct English sentences: New
• hidden.animalsFind the animal hidden in each sentence. New
• idiomsList some idioms that say the opposite of what they mean.
• obfuscated.proverbsIdentify these obfuscations of celebrated oracular utterances: New
• palindromesWhat are some long palindromes? Added material
• pangramA "pangram" is a sentence containing all 26 letters. Added material
• parts.of.speechWrite a sentence that uses each of the eight parts of speech (interjection, pronoun, verb, adverb,... New
• repeated.wordsWhat is a sentence with the same word several times repeated? Added material
• reversed.clichesCan anyone add to this list of cliches with word reversals to create clever sayings? New
• scrabble.tilesTell a story using exactly the 100 tiles of a Scrabble set (the two blanks may stand for any letters). New
• sentenceFind a sentence with words beginning with the letters of the alphabet, in order.
• snowballConstruct the longest coherent sentence you can such that the nth word is n letters long.
• supersentenceWhat is the shortest sentence containing all four phrases and three subordinate clauses identified in...
• two.consonant.sentenceCreate a sentence using only two consonants and as many vowels as you want; each letter may be used more... New, unsolved
• upside.down.palindromesFind a palindrome that is also unchanged when read upside down. New
• weirdMake a sentence containing only words that violate the "i before e" rule.
• word.boundariesList some sentences that can be radically altered by changing word boundaries and punctuation. Added material