In his new book "Dictionary Stories: Short Fictions And Other Findings," author Jez Burrows expands those example sentences into 100 little works of literature.

While helpful, these examples can be strange or oddly poetic. Designer and illustrator Jez Burrows saw potential in those single sentences, and decided to weave them together to create short ...

When Jez Burrows reads example sentences in dictionaries, he feels inspired. He has started a blog where he posts short stories made up entirely of sentences from the New Oxford American Dictionary.

“Dictionary Stories” began as a blog compiling the NOAD’s zaniest example sentences — which Burrows then mashes up into sometimes-silly, sometimes-sad and always-interesting pieces of ...