Read out loud.
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the paining I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
21) All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life.
22) One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.
23) The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.
24) The man the professor the student has studies Rome.
25) Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. (Bison from Buffalo, New York, who are intimidated by other bison in their community, also happen to intimidate other bison in their community.)
26) I never said she stole my money.
27) A ship-shipping ship ships shipping-ships.
28) The old man the boats.
29) A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.
30) The horse raced past the barn fell.
31) I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications’ incomprehensibleness.
32) The blind man fell into the well, because he could not see that well.
33) Read rhymes with lead, and read rhymes with lead, but read and lead don’t rhyme, and neither do read and lead.
34) If it is it, it is it; if it is it is it, it is.
35) The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.
36) The horse raced past the barn fell.
37) Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
38) This exceeding trifling witling, considering ranting criticizing concerning adopting fitting wording being exhibiting transcending learning, was displaying, notwithstanding ridiculing, surpassing boasting swelling reasoning, respecting correcting erring writing, and touching detecting deceiving arguing during debating.
39) A woman without her man is nothing.
40) “I see,” said the blind man as he picked up the hammer and saw.
41) Read rhymes with lead, and read rhymes with lead, but read and lead don’t rhyme, and neither do read and lead.
42) You have just begun reading the sentence you have just finished reading.
43) Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.
44) One morning, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas, I’ll never know.
45) When I tell you pick up the left rock, it will be the right one, and then only the right rock will be left.
46) Will Will Smith smith? / Will Smith will smith.
47) I chopped a tree down, and then I chopped it up.
48) Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.