Here you go: the first batch of sentence prompts. Thanks to all who sent in sentences. Most of you have much better things to do. I'll keep them at the ready for students when they need one, or they need to get started.

1. The last time I saw her she was wearing a fake moustache.
2. While it may be true that artistic pursuits contribute little to the material welfare of a any given culture, art is vital to any society with the capacity to be bored.
3. If there's one thing I've learned from my parents it's this: All futures become old school.
   
4. I've spent my whole life trying to figure out how to walk down a street with a black man
   and not notice that he's black.
5. "Public servants" pretend they are not, first and foremost, ambitious.
6. Only after the rain ended did he smell the peaches.
7. I know he meant to say tangential, but he kept right on saying tangenital.
8. I'm not saying I'm proud, but I did win an award for that once.
9. All I really remember in those first few minutes was his initial response, which went something like "What do you mean you dropped it? It's seventy-fucking-one stories, Larry. Seventy one. Now what the fuck are we gonna do? Huh? You asshole."
10. I've been meaning to tell you this, but you look like a monkey.
11. The chicanery needed to stop, before any one got hurt.
12. There is a miniature pump doctors call the Berlin Heart.
13. A little over two weeks ago my Jess looked out the window and then she turned and ran for the door yelling: something's wrong with Mattie!
14. The gourd was hardly engorged, but rather wilted and withered.
15. The horizon, however flat it may appear from where humans usually stand, is actually the outer edge of a vertiginous spheroid, and therefore almost unbearably round.
16. This essay deals with the history of turnips.
17. By now the notion that boiled eggs are tasty is something of a commonplace.
18. Among the many threats to America's economic stability, some of which are quite serious, I need to pay my babysitter with something other than loose change.
19. Where has all the old-fashioned bric-a-brac gone?
20. Summertime rested like a nap just on the other side of May.
21. I've got a few hard things to tell myself about myself.
22. Just because something is as big as a house does not make it a house.
23. There is ten things I am going to delve through.

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