I was three. I woke up lying on my living room floor, struggling to remember who and where I was. Once my mom came in the room I remembered. It was dinner time, and I hated that my favourite green beans were being cooked.

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#1

It’s insanely long sentence

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#2

Not really. It is four sentences, with lengths of 3 to 17 words each.

#3

At Tatoeba, and presumably also at Clozemaster, “sentence” is often used to mean “unit of contribution” (see, it’s hard to come up with an alternative term), not just something that is a sentence in a grammatical sense. Perhaps masleus meant that this is a very long unit to work with (to fit on the screen, listen to, etc.).

There are other problems with this sentence, which I noted in a comment at Tatoeba.

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#4

I would suggest that the proper term is “expression.”

#5

“Expression” already serves another purpose. For instance, you could ask “How often does the expression ‘lose your head’ appear in English sentences at Tatoeba?” I don’t think it would be clear to try to make it also mean “sequence of words contributed as a unit”.