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Won, now own.

Rules:

    1. A “word” is an entry on dictionary.com.

    2. A “sentence” is any text that is grammatically correct, has a complete meaning in the English language, starts with a capital letter and ends with a dot.

  2. Repeated words are not allowed.

  3. You are allowed to use punctuation, such as colons and quotation marks, as long as it’s not for making lists (i.e. cheating).

  4. Sentences are rated by word count, however proper names count each as only one word since they can trivially be extended from simple proper nouns by appending surnames.

  5. Common words cannot be changed to proper nouns, although these are allowed as long as they appear as such on dictionary.com.

  6. Finally, as suggested, sentences and text inside quotes must actually make sense, not just gibberish.

That’s it! Good luck, puzzlers!

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    $\begingroup$ Shouldn't there be a requirement that you form a proper sentence, not just gibberish? $\endgroup$ – dramzy Aug 24 '15 at 16:44
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    $\begingroup$ This might be useful to people attempting this puzzle. $\endgroup$ – Ian MacDonald Aug 24 '15 at 17:08
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    $\begingroup$ Competitions to form sentences with the most X inevitably devolve into who can stretch the meaning of sentence the most, and writing code to brute-force search. $\endgroup$ – xnor Aug 25 '15 at 0:38
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    $\begingroup$ Is it strange how saying sentences backward creates backward sentences saying how strange it is? $\endgroup$ – Neil Aug 25 '15 at 6:57
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    $\begingroup$ now to construct these into a sentence: source adeinr (52 anagrams): adrien, adrine, ainder, anderi, andire, andrei, andrie, ardine, dairen, daneri, danier, darein, darien, darine, dearin, deiran, denair, denari, denira, derain, derian, derina, dierna, draine, drenai, drenia, edrian, erandi, eridan, erinda, idanre, indear, indera, naderi, nadier, nadire, nareid, neidar, neriad, nerida, niedra, radien, raiden, rained, randie, rdeina, readin, redian, redina, renida, riande, rienda $\endgroup$ – SeanC Aug 25 '15 at 20:41
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11 words, 77 characters

Anestri-resiant starnie retina's stearin stainer retains antsier, nastier retsina ratines.

Which means:

Having been resiant (residing) in anestri (a period of sexual rest), the stearin stainer (a pigment used to stain stearin, a certain triglyceride compound) of the retina of a starnie (a small star) retains retsina ratines (loose, knotted fabric soaked in retsina, a pine-flavoured Greek wine) that are more fidgety (antsier) and more nastier than before.

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    $\begingroup$ I know a lot of words, but wow, good thing you had your explanation. $\endgroup$ – corsiKa Aug 25 '15 at 19:25
  • $\begingroup$ 90 characters after you add the punctuation. Very nice. $\endgroup$ – Kingrames Aug 25 '15 at 19:54
  • $\begingroup$ You're going to have to explain exactly what a star's retina is. $\endgroup$ – Ian MacDonald Aug 26 '15 at 14:48
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    $\begingroup$ It's the colorless-green part of a star that sleeps furiously =) Alternatively, we can interpret "starnie" as "starlet", a young actor / actress. $\endgroup$ – Hackiisan Aug 26 '15 at 17:57
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Setal teals steal least-stale slate-stela Tesla tales.

9 words

"Bristly birds steal the least stale tales of Tesla that are written on a slate stela (stone slab)."

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    $\begingroup$ I like this one better than the spear one, it makes a bit more sense (lol) if that's in any way logical... $\endgroup$ – Spacemonkey Aug 24 '15 at 18:28
  • $\begingroup$ Um... 9 5-letter words should be 45 characters?? $\endgroup$ – Rohcana Aug 25 '15 at 0:44
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Here's a five-word one:

Rats' star tars tsar arts.

Or, "The most famous from among the rats smears tar on art produced by the emperor."

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  • $\begingroup$ The apostrophe at the end of " Rats' " is cheating a bit, an anagram of that would have to have the apostrophe as well. Clever though. $\endgroup$ – dramzy Aug 24 '15 at 16:58
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    $\begingroup$ @RespectMyAuthoritah An alternative would be "Rats" star, indicating the star of the musical "Rats". I'm not quite willing to stoop down to that level, though. :D $\endgroup$ – Bailey M Aug 24 '15 at 17:01
  • $\begingroup$ Yeah, I am not even sure if non-alphabet characters matter in anagrams. Depends on the definition I guess. $\endgroup$ – dramzy Aug 24 '15 at 17:04
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    $\begingroup$ The question says punctuation is allowed. $\endgroup$ – A E Aug 24 '15 at 18:09
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8 words:

Parse, "Asper spear pares prase, apres, reaps pears".

Meaning "Parse the sentence: "rough spear cuts/removes prase (a translucent, greenish variety of chalcedony.), afterwards it reaps pears". Convoluted, I know.

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    $\begingroup$ Actually, since the rules are not clear on what counts as a sentence, one can do: > Parse "apers, apres, asper, pares, pears, prase, presa, rapes, reaps, spare, spear". which could be a command to parse that string, it wouldn't really matter if the words inside the string form a proper sentence, $\endgroup$ – dramzy Aug 24 '15 at 18:14
  • $\begingroup$ This would be a command to parse a list. But I see where you are going: You could put any gibberish inside the quotes. I'll change the rules to dis $\endgroup$ – MathET Aug 24 '15 at 19:50
  • $\begingroup$ Probably needs a comma replacing with a semicolon in here $\endgroup$ – Lightness Races in Orbit Aug 24 '15 at 20:08
  • $\begingroup$ Corrected the sentence ;) $\endgroup$ – dramzy Jun 5 '16 at 3:27
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6 6-letter words, no punctuation:

Septal plates staple palest pastel petals.

which means:

Plates from a burial chamber use a stapler on pale, delicately shaded petals.

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  • $\begingroup$ I remember trying to write a sestina once with all of the line-ending words anagrams; five of the six were these. I wish I had finished it. $\endgroup$ – lirtosiast Aug 26 '15 at 6:01
  • $\begingroup$ @justhalf You still could.. It's never too late :) And there's "pleats" too, I just couldn't fit it in anywhere. $\endgroup$ – Madhuri Gole Aug 27 '15 at 7:28
  • $\begingroup$ I think you meant @ThomasKwa instead :) $\endgroup$ – justhalf Aug 27 '15 at 7:29
  • $\begingroup$ @justhalf Oops.. Sorry about that.. $\endgroup$ – Madhuri Gole Aug 27 '15 at 7:46
  • $\begingroup$ @ThomasKwa You still could.. It's never too late :) And there's "pleats" too, I just couldn't fit it in anywhere. $\endgroup$ – Madhuri Gole Aug 27 '15 at 7:47
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9 words, 54 characters

Artel's salter alerts staler slater, alters stelar estral ratels.

Which means-

A salter (a person making salts) who belongs to an artel (a community of farmers), alerts a slater (a person who lays slates) who is staler (more unwitty), and alters an inscription of estral ratels (badgerlike carnivores who are in the estrous cycle) on a stone slub (stele).

There are also the words "talers" and "laster" which I am not able to fit in this sentence(?) meaningfully.

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Here's an 8 word sentence with a proper noun:

Apres-rapes, Spear pares spare pears; reaps asper.

You didn't say I couldn't make one or all of them proper nouns!

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    $\begingroup$ Well pointed out. I changed the rules because it's kinda cheating. Have my upvote, though $\endgroup$ – MathET Aug 24 '15 at 21:32
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10 words

Apres-rapes, parse "prase spear pares spare pears, reaps asper"

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After you have completed the violent sexual attacks, analyse the following sentence: "a weapon, made of green quartz, removes the skin of sweet fruits (rather like apples) which are additional to requirements, and is rewarded with a former silver coin of Turkey and Egypt"

Thank you to @Ian McDonald for the helpful link.

Update: I see Respect has come up with something similar while I was working this out.

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