“I laid low the warriors of old and their like is not in the world today.” (Tolken, The Hobbit 226)
This sentence means “I” killed all the best warriors the world had to offer. The significance of this sentence in particular is more in the diction and tone of the speaker. Smaug, a nasty raging dragon, said this in his dialogue with Bilbo with words that seemed to make him a boastful dragon. It shows he has contemplated on this subject for a while because he says it so casually and with a conclusion. Its significance shows that people should not waste anything or anyone because they will feel the consequences for doing so, which are generally a combination to form loneliness. The fact that this sentence is a run-on in a well-known tributes book bothered me when I read it first, but when I ignored it, the sentence went on more smoothly with out it. There was no hint for a pause between the two short sentences that combined.
The player crossed over the defender of the AAS team and his confidence solidified on the court that day.
My imitation of Tolken’s sentence was able to carry you into a short story of a person’s start to playing basketball instead of trying to do well in it. This sentence is based on the necessity for constant motion to be happening. It gives an order of events that establishes time, and then it gives a place. It contains so much information that, if someone wanted to, they could write a whole essay about it.