Water so hard it bends light, drills holes in rock and chokes up your radiator.' (Edward Abbey, 'Journey Home'. Salt, selenium, arsenic, radon and radium in the water in the gravel in your bones.

'The hawk sailing by at 200 feet, a squirming snake in its talons.

Over the main entrance the words CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.' (Aldous Huxley, 'Brave New World', 1932)

'A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.

Making the world seem ever smaller.' (ad for Lufthansa)

Connections to over 170 European destinations. 'Departures from 22 North American gateways.Extraordinary the effect it has on a child.'' (Ian Fleming, 'Moonraker', 1955) sentence, meaning that it is not able to stand on its own, chances are that the word group is a fragment. 'Ogre's teeth.' Being bullied at school and so on. A sentence fragment is a group of words that is punctuated. Yes, I expect that's what the psychologists will say when they get you into the lunatic asylum. To simply put, sentence fragments are similarly structured simple sentences but are actually not. Comes from sucking your thumb when you're a child. Curiously enough,' he went on conversationally, 'it may have something to do with your teeth. Megalomaniac hatred and desire for revenge. He looked levelly at the great red face across the desk. White, 'Hot Weather.' 'One Man's Meat', 1942) The cicada of the typewriter, telling the long steaming noons.

* * * Asterisks? So soon? * * * It is a hot weather sign, the asterisk.University of South Carolina Press, 1994) (Judith Kitchen, 'Culloden,' 'Only the Dance'. Time to drive on, toward Strathpeffer, friends, a phone call from my father. The sky hunkers down, presses, like a lover, against the land. (Tim O'Brien, 'LZ Gator, Vietnam.' The New York Times Magazine, October 2, 1994)

Not a sandbag, not a nail or a scrap of wire.

Meaning of sentence fragment