Get your gears rolling with these sentence starters

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Get your gears rolling with these sentence
starters

• Taken from Empowering Writers
• By Carla Smith

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Reminders

• PLEASE feel free to use these to help with your
  writing.
• They should HELP you write your papers, not write
  them for you!
• Make sure you use more than one sense in your
  writing.

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Taste

• The _______ tasted ________.
• The _______ melted in my mouth.
• I closed my eyes and could almost taste ______.
• My mouth watered just thinking about _______.
• My stomach growled at the thought of ______.
• I could just imagine the taste of _________.

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Feel

• The ________ felt _________.
• When I touched the ________ it seemed _____.
• I rubbed my fingers across ________ and it
• felt ______.
• As I touched _____ it reminded me of _______.
• I ran my hand along ______ and realized _____.
• I noticed the _______ feeling of the _________.
• I felt the ________.

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Smell

• I took a deep breath and smelled _______.
• I enjoyed the smell of _________.
• The scent reminded me of ________.
• The air was filled with the smell of _______.
• When I breathed in, I noticed ________.
• I sniffed at the _______.
• I loved the smell of _________.

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Smell continued

• The _________ smelled _________.
• I noticed the fragrance of _________.
• There was faint scent of _________.
• I got a strong whiff of __________.

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See

• I looked closely at _________.
• Squinting, I detected ___________.
• I shivered when I caught the sight of _________.
• I gasped when I saw __________.
• I couldnt believe the sight of ________.
• In the distance I spied _______.
• I stared at _________.
• My eyes widened as I spotted ___________.

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See

• I glanced around at ________.
• I caught a glimpse of _________.
• I couldnt help but notice __________.
• I watched _________.
• There were _________.
• I peered at __________.
• I was surprised to see __________.
• The _________ were ___________.

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Hear

• In the distance, I could hear _________.
• As I listened, I could hear ___________.
• If you listened closely __________.
• I listened quietly ___________.
• It was hard to ignore the sound of _________.
• The _______ makes sounds like ________.
• Off in the distance I heard ________.

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Hear

• I cupped my ear and _________.
• If I was quiet enough I could hear __________.
• Standing quietly I noticed ________.
• I strained to hear ________.
• __________ went the sound of the ________.
• I heard __________.