Since it was a school day, Denise thought it was peculiar that she saw children playing at the park on her way to work.

On the way to her room after having been grounded, Tammy murmured something under her breath.

We have rather lofty expectations for you, son. You will attend college. You will become rich and famous. You will be elected president of the United States before you turn forty.

One brother is an erudite professor; the other brother, however, has never shown any interest in books or learning.

Night is the time when many animals forage for food.

My sister loathes broccoli, but she loves spinach.

Although I was unable to understand all of the details of the presentation, I did get the gist of it.

He was so impudent to his mother that I would have punished him if he talked to me that way.

My brother said, “I just freed myself from a very loquacious history professor. All he seemed to want was an audience.”

There is no doubt that the idea of living in such a benign climate was appealing. The islanders seemed to keep their vitality and live longer than Europeans.

It is difficult to imagine a surfeit of talent in one individual, yet Leonard Bernstein simply does not have the time to make complete use of his talent as conductor, performer, writer, and lecturer.

There is a large demand all over the United States for plants indigenous to the desert. Many people in Arizona have made a good business of growing and selling cacti and other local plants.

After the Romans left, a millennium and a half passed before people again lived in such comfort. Churchill wrote, “From the year 400 until the year 1900 no one had central heating and very few had hot baths.”

Such are the vicissitudes of history. Nothing remains the same. Three hundred years of peace ended in darkness and confusion.

We knew he couldn’t hold out much longer, because he had been doomed from the beginning. One night he met his ineluctable fate.

A toxic combination of fog and industrial smoke, called smog, has vitiated the air in and around many big cities.

No matter where you go, the Internet is following you. Almost every portable device is being made with an Internet connection. Most new TVs and many other appliances come with Internet connections as well. The Internet is truly ubiquitous.

Some people are always bashing the president just like others bashed the one before him. Wouldn't you think that everyone could find something to praise him for, at least once in a while?

I believe that if you lower taxes so that people can keep more of the money they earn, it will be an incentive for them to work harder.