# Orderly Sentences **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 22, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orderly-sentences/769389 "2016-10-22T20:08:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orderly-sentences/769389/1 "2016-10-22T20:08:29Z")
Compose one or more coherent sentences using words in alphabetical order. Start anywhere in the alphabet but do not skip letters once started. Go forward or backward thru alphabet and change direction at any time. You may repeat a letter. Paragraphs encouraged. Some examples: A bat boy can deliver each fan good hats. Zoo’s animals brave cold dens. When x-rayed, young Zack asked, “But can doctor ease finger gash hurt?” Hank got fat eating Dove candy bars at zoos. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orderly-sentences/769389/2 "2016-10-22T20:18:00Z")
Abby, Bobby, Candy, Debbie, Eddy, Franny, Granny, Hannah, Izzy, Johnny, Katie, Laurie, Manny, Nancy, Opie, Perry, Queenie, Ruthie, Sandy, Terry, Ursula, Velma, Wendy, Xerxes, Yanni, Zandra and Allie bought candy, doughnuts, eggs, fireballs, geoducks, ham, icies, jackals, kale, lollies, manna, nougant, orioles, pills, quills, rocks, sands, toffee, umbrella, vasoline, wetbacks, xylophones, yoyos, zebras, and bubbly. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orderly-sentences/769389/3 "2016-10-22T21:01:05Z")
All barbers can do easy frills; great hairdressers innovate. ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orderly-sentences/769389/4 "2016-10-22T21:02:58Z")
Did Evan’s family get him institutionalized? Just keeping legal medical marijuana nearby often promotes quiet relaxation, sometimes, though unusually violent uproar Thursday showed therapist unhinged. ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orderly-sentences/769389/5 "2016-11-02T20:24:43Z")
Just hoping for a few posts. Here’s one I did on another board some years ago: Enraged flamingos guanoed Hugh Igoe. Janitor/keeper left main nursery open, permitting quite randy simians to unassemble very weak x-hinges. Yammering zooman admits blunder caused damage. Exiting flamingos, generally harmless, inflicted jabbing kicks, lacerating many nearby. Outside, parents quickly rushed students to university vans. With xylophone, young Zachary Adams’ bebop calms down everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orderly-sentences/769389/6 "2016-11-09T17:55:30Z")
My nanny often promised quick retribution, subject to unknown variables. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orderly-sentences/769389/7 "2016-11-09T18:58:23Z")
Whirling xylophones, yes, zip along Boulevard Cantina delightfully. ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orderly-sentences/769389/8 "2016-11-09T19:38:42Z")
Everyone dances excitedly, feeling good. Hungry gringos fear good, highly intense jalapeno knishes low. “Make more, niña!” Oberto pronounces quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Brooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Brooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brooky)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orderly-sentences/769389/9 "2016-11-17T11:06:00Z")
russel some tomatoes up, vinegar, wine, xylaid zest and boil cold distilled ebulliet fillet gizzard. Have it jarred kosher, Lad. Make no opinion, Pirate! Quell resistance, sanction treaties under veil with xyloid yew zone. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orderly-sentences/769389/10 "2016-11-18T17:46:01Z")
“Any awkward, braying bumpkin can crow”, Dame Edna Everage foolishly groaned; hiding, I, jackdaw, killed kinky koalas, lamed lama llamas, mashed meaty morsels, noshed noxious nephrotoxins, ordered ornate ornaments, prised prized prizes, quashed quaffing queers, rent rented rooms, snuffed sinewy snakes, trampled tented tomatoes, upended unique urns, vented vermilion vomitus, weaned wee weasels, xylophoned your zippers. ---
**Author:** ![Brooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Brooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brooky)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orderly-sentences/769389/11 "2016-12-09T10:47:52Z")
Arrogant brother’s caught derelict English feminist’s giggling happily inside junk kyak’s, lazilly making nautical oars. ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orderly-sentences/769389/12 "2016-12-09T15:08:35Z")
Phil quickly ran south to unlock vehicle while 'xtremely young Zoroastrians arrived bearing clubs. Deftly evading fierce group, he is just keeping little Mazda neatly on path. ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orderly-sentences/769389/13 "2016-12-17T15:04:21Z")
A black crow, defying eagle’s fierce gaze, hurtled into juniper knothole lair, making no overt outcry. Placid quail reacted suddenly, thrusting upward toward sky. That unfortunate victim was violated. Unleashing talons, soaring raptor quickly pursued, offered no mercy. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orderly-sentences/769389/14 "2016-12-18T15:40:16Z")
A blessed Christmas, dear electronic friends, gracious holidays in joyous kind, love manifested natally, open presents, quite righteous silent night to U, various wishes, Xmas’s youthful zeal! ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orderly-sentences/769389/15 "2016-12-31T14:30:49Z")
Zamfir’s yurt 'xploded, whereupon vexed unsuspecting tired sheep, roused, quickly pissed on neighbor milking late. Keeping just inside his garden fence, Edouard delivered cutlery back at Zamfir.