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Which sentence uses sensory detail to describe a setting?A."Finally I stood still, listening to the barely audible whoosh-whoosh-whoosh from the propellers, watching small birds flitting over the scrub and cacti in the last of the light."B."I was pedaling my 18-speed towards electricity, or towards an understanding of it, anyway."C."So I decided to figure out how this 35-year-old writer-cyclist-student-teacher's daily caffeine intake affected the glaciers, the polar bears and the climate."D."There were a bunch of facts about the power plant, about how much coal it goes through and where it comes from and how it all turns into electricity."

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Which sentence uses sensory detail to describe a setting?A."Finally I stood still, listening to the barely audible whoosh-whoosh-whoosh from the propellers, watching small birds flitting over the scrub and cacti in the last of the light."B."I was pedaling my 18-speed towards electricity, or towards an understanding of it, anyway."C."So I decided to figure out how this 35-year-old writer-cyclist-student-teacher's daily caffeine intake affected the glaciers, the polar bears and the climate."D."There were a bunch of facts about the power plant, about how much coal it goes through and where it comes from and how it all turns into electricity."

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The sentence that uses sensory detail to describe a setting is A. "Finally I stood still, listening to the barely audible whoosh-whoosh-whoosh from the propellers, watching small birds flitting over the scrub and cacti in the last of the light." This sentence uses auditory (listening to the whoosh-whoosh-whoosh from the propellers) and visual (watching small birds flitting over the scrub and cacti in the last of the light) sensory details to describe the setting.

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