picked sentences from Time Magazine

I'd picked up some sentences choosing from Time website for my composing training use.I won't picked many of them but some consistant of brilliant struction by which can make my artcle look good.and one more problem is my vocabulary which also need to keep collecting from my daily reading.

• of the explosion would have been at risk of being hit by shrapnel and millions of shards of flying glass
• Such horrors did not come to New York for what you might call a New York reason.
• Their collective alarms went off when smoke started coming out of the Pathfinder,left with its engine runing in front of a phone booth,already conspicuous because it was illegally parked in a bus lane.
• And the city that never sleeps had one more reason to thank its street-level heroes who always seem to stay wide awake.
• In the immediate aftermath,there was a resonable desire to concentrate on the amateurish nature of the boom attempt allegedly carried out by Faisal Shahzad.
• Given the mayhem that could have resulted from his action,it is hard to avoid the conclusion that Shahzad's aims were consistent with those of the global jihadi movement.