declarative
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“If they are saying it’s definitely happening or making declarative sentences like that, that’s something to be concerned about.”
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
The audience seem to know every word - with the whole room reverberating to the declarative, "I don't need a boyfriend", that crops up in the second verse of Nice To Each Other.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
“Call me Ishmael,” which opens Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick,” is among the most famous first lines in all of literature, but I prefer a different declarative Melville opening: “I am a rather elderly man.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
Every awkwardly declarative, stagy scene in “Bonhoeffer” is just a right-against-wrong equation to be answered by the title character’s virtue.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024
“You’re making a lot of declarative statements for someone who just got here.”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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Sentences - Introductory
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