ChatCheapyT: Submitted Sentences

For the launch of the C-O's Sunday Magazine, we asked readers to submit sentences for use by our custom AI language model, ChatCheapyT. (T for Tycoon, of course.) You responded, in excellent form. Your sentences are listed below, in no particular order. I hope I managed to include them all. If I missed yours, please accept my apologies.

The story turned out by ChatCheapyT is here. Your sentences, in their bare essentials, are as follows:

Arthur held up a hand—hold that thought—and swallowed half his cappuccino.

“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”

"Hours passed, like a kidney stone.”

“In life, if you were careful, there were simply not that many times when you absolutely, positively, had to turn into a bear.”

Whether you are waiting for your food or lining up to be counted, you can always practice breathing mindfully or practice smiling.

"Some physicists have in recent years encouraged an unfortunate aspiration towards grand unified pictures, but I fear we must accept that the world that we encounter, the world of real stuff that we see and touch, is far too messy for that."

"I just write poetry to throw my mean callous heartless exterior into sharp relief."

One of the theories for how the tequila kind of spirits came to be called that is the vapor given off and collected during the distillation process was thought to be the spirit, or essence, of the original material.

Flooding puts you at risk of drowning.

“In St. Giles Cathedral, John Hanna, dean of Edinburgh, was reading from the new Book of Common Worship, which people had taken to calling ‘Laud’s Liturgy’, when he was struck by a stool flung by a woman in the congregation.”

“Once upon a time there was a Princess who was always wanting something new and strange.”

“So Simple and the Princess were married, and the crew of the flying ship were at the wedding, and all of the captains and the colonels and all the generals of his army, and never had there been such a wedding in the kingdom. And by and by the King died, and Simple became the King, and the Princess became the Queen, and they lived happily ever after.”

Why should anyone steal a watch when they could steal a bicycle?

Cole had started films in 1932 and had actually tallied more screen credits than Trumbo at the time of the hearings, though most were done for the B units at various studios.

“I replied that I would be dashed if I took my wooly muffler.”

Suddenly...

"A violent electrical storm raged overhead as Tesla came into the world, an appropriate portent for a child who would become the 'Master of Lightning.'"

"There are distinctions between countable gunk (a gunky object that has not more than countably many non-overlapping parts), gunk of higher cardinalities, and hypergunk."

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.