Quick Sentence Exercise

Ted Williams hits a home run in his last at bat in Fenway Park on September 28, 1960; John Updike wrote this sentence to commemorate the occasion:

It was in the books while it was still in the sky.

Stanley Fish brings up this sentence in his book How to Write a Sentence (2011) to introduce the idea of imitation. So here we go:

His promise was broken before the device was made. 

He was on skid row while he still stood in his home. 

That check had bounced before it dropped into her hands.