As poor as a poet would be quite as comprehensible as as poor as a church mouse.

The ligamentous alteration of patients with RA leads to joint instability, which may produce an early failure of the two-piece pyrocarbon implants.

They might have been lifted bodily out of an indifferently written American crime novel.

A few days after the sick Holstein was identified, Dr. DeHaven announced that the cow had been part of a herd of seventy-four cattle shipped from Alberta, Canada, more than two years earlier. […] The National Cattlemen's Beef Association immediately resorted to a blame-Canada-first strategy, suggesting that U.S. trading partners should now reopen their borders to unfairly maligned American beef.