Have you ever had a sentence stop you in your tracks? Editors at The American Scholar magazine have put out their list of the "Ten Best Sentences" in fiction and nonfiction.Associate editor ...

The editors of American Scholar have chosen “Ten Best Sentences” from literature, and readers have suggested many more. They threw in an eleventh for good measure. This lovely feature caught ...

-- This isn't the best sentence, but it is huge news: "The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting ...

To determine the most popular phrases that originated in the military, 24/7 Tempo reviewed compilations of such phrases from the USO and other sources and did additional research into their ...

Without further ado, here they are: words worth revisiting. Words worth keeping. Their forebears appeared in the Best Sentences of 2023.I’ll start rounding up their descendants in 2025.

"If the shoe fits," "goody two shoes" and "shaking in my boots" — Why do we use these phrases and where did they come from? Here are three fun original stories of popular expressions.

Even as an eBook on my wife’s iPad, it runs more than 1,050 pages, and something like 20,000 sentences. That’s a lot. But not all sentences are created equal.

The best sentences we read today. June 12, 2013. By Brad Plumer-- "The willingness of the government to punish leakers ...

Over recent days, I took on a daunting task — but a delightful one. I reviewed all the passages of prose featured in the For the Love of Sentences section of my Times Opinion newsletter in 2023 ...