Transcript Examples of great descriptive sentences

Great lines from your
descriptive writing
By: English 11 students
Fantastic
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The beach is always at its best right around sunset.
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The soft wind rustles the dangling dried pine needles
that hang from the reaching branches.
Small ripples float across the pale blue water.
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Great opening line
Great details
It reminded me of jagged ice melting in the sun.
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Gives reader a perspective
Makes me want to read!
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The mossy tinted rocks on the shore and the muddy
beach look close to the towering hills in the crisp
reflection on the water.
Glistening under the sun like tiny microscopic
diamonds, it no longer looked like the snow I thought
it might be but vast land drenched with sugar, tiny
rolling hills of sugar.
I rise stiffly from my bed of pine needles on the hard,
cruel earth. . . . I gaze out eastwards, and on the
horizon a pink glow danced across the sky.
I feel like I’m there!
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Stopping to meditate on the top of a hill that
crossed the far end of the lake, I listened to the
sounds of the ducks splashing and wading in
and around the water.
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gives us a perspective from which to view the scene
It is silent except for the melody coming from
the crackling of a fire in the campsite below.
Cameras and reporters surround the players
like bullies.
You give me a way to see the scene!
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As the hot warm breeze picked up a little, I could
smell hot dogs and hamburgers on a grill. My mouth
started to water like a dog waiting for a piece of
steak.
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describing how the smell affected the writer helps the
reader to understand the experience
Under the trees the shed leans to the side as if you
could knock it over with a feather.
The memories of the past were obviously still there.
As we sat in our pew, the eyes of hatred pressed on us
as if we were the corporations that oppressed them.
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gives reader a perspective from which to view the scene
If all description was this good . . .
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Right in front of me there stand small buildings
huddling together as if the wind could knock them
out in the open.
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I . . . hear the bored cows carrying on their
conversations in the pasture.
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nice verbs
interesting twist on what is seen – a perspective
The feeling of excitement shoots through my veins as
soon as I feel my feet sink into the gritty, branding
sand.
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shows how the senses affect you
Unfortunately, this is the last slide.
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A soft breeze tickles my face gently with the salty
aroma of the ocean.
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This place always reminds me of a dream I once had
when I was little and I’ll never forget it.
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how senses affect you
Clinching line wraps it up and gives perspective
The bright green grass flickered in the screaming
wind.
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Good verb