2. The Elaborated Simple Sentence

My sentence:

The man laughed with gasping breath, producing short, huffing sounds.

Barely wobbling in on red stiletto heels, the baubles on her hat zooming like electrons gone mad, Marlene steers a straight course for Tommy Lee of the crumpled Dixie Beer

t-shirt.

Other examples:

"She was a big, blond woman, all soft and awry, like an unmade bed."

Kurt Vonnegut, "Next Door"

"It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns."

James Joyce, "The Dead"

In the last paragraph of his short story, "The Dead", Joyce uses "snow" to convey Ireland's insulation from the rest of the modern world; snow is covering all of Ireland. In this particular sentence, "it" refers to the snow on a lonely churchyard and cemetery.