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I was curious if the words could be used to form any sentences -- here's the corpus organized by part-of-speech. (Many words are missing due to gaps in the corpus I used):

NOUN 147 slob, Ellie, silo, bile, sell, Gil, belles, highs, Bessie, losses, giggles, Liz, hobo, Leslie, Bob, lies, bellies, soil, Hess, hells, Isis, Gog, Hiss, boogie, holes, bliss, oils, gel, leg, lobes, globes, Gill, Leigh, geese, bogies, bilge, Lizzie, Leo, boil, legs, shoe, shells, Ozzie, giggle, ooze, size, eel, high, bill, gob, hole, hog, soles, libel, Hill, bee, shills, ills, Lois, glee, Bess, lobe, gig, Beebe, sizes, Gogol, sloe, hiss, Ellis, Sol, boos, Ohio, bees, HBO, bobbles, ill, lie, sobs, booze, bibles, Gibbs, hobbies, sighs, shell, isle, bib, Hegel, hills, Zoe, Eloise, Giles, sill, Elsie, Bill, bells, loss, egg, eggshell, bills, hoses, Shiloh, siege, Bible, solos, sigh, Hillel, logs, hose, lobbies, hill, log, hob, bell, shoes, Lee, gloss, heels, Hobbes, bosses, soils, solo, Oslo, hoes, goose, oil, Bell, blob, goggles, Eli, sole, ego, silos, hogs, lilies, Billie, gibes, ell, hell, shill, globe, oblige, loose, eggs, gibe, boss, heel, Bobbie

VERB 34 sells, loses, Lie, boil, sell, ebb, lob, seize, solo, begs, see, ebbs, sizzle, beg, lie, besiege, ooze, size, goes, hole, lies, hobble, bog, obsesses, soil, boils, loose, bless, solos, sigh, gobbles, shies, lose, sees

ADJ 9 sole, loose, ill, high, less, glib, big, beige, eligible

ADV 5 loose, ill, less, high, else

PRT 4 gosh, hello, see, hell

X 3 his, Les, les

DET 1 his

PRON 2 his, she

LLM can you use words only in the following list, to create the longest sentences you can that make sense and read like plausible English sentences?
Tested. LLM response. ChatGPT at https://openai.com/chatgpt/ (whatever the default currently is)

"Great, thanks for providing the words. Here’s a paragraph and a long sentence using only the words from your list."

Paragraph:

Ellie and Gil see high hills and lush soils as they sell eggs. Bessie, Lizzie, and Billie giggle at the blissful scene, while Bob, with his big bellies, sees sole lilies by the lake. Hobbes and Zoe bless the giggles and sighs from the hill. Ellie, high on glee, sees Leslie and Ellie loose on the hill.

Long Sentence:

Ellie, Gil, and Bobbie, with their big, glib egos, hobble to the hill, see high geese and geese solos, sell blissful lilies and lilies, see his giggles and giggles, sees solos, sees shell solos, sell loose, high eggshells, sell soles, sell high heels, lose high heels, lose loose lilies, and see highs, high on high hills.

Numeric Equivalent:

Ellie (371173), Gil (617), and Bobbie (860778), with their big (618), glib (6178), egos (3760), hobble (4607713) to the hill (411), see (335) high (4614) geese (63335) and geese (63335) solos (50505), sell (7735) blissful (817557981) lilies (511173) and lilies (511173), see (335) his (517) giggles (61977619) and giggles (61977619), sees (3355) solos (50505), sees (3355) shell (53477) solos (50505), sell (7735) loose (53350), high (4614) eggshells (355435517), sell (7735) soles (50535), sell (7735) high (4614) heels (43735), lose (3505) high (4614) heels (43735), lose (3505) loose (53350) lilies (511173), and see (335) highs (46145), high (4614) on high (4614) hills (4115).

Also, fun note: ChatGPT will go into Mr. Burns mode if you emote Simpsons...

Can you make it stick to the list? This is full of words not available, and so none of it actually works.
Eventually was able to get a reply that was a fairly close to an above suggestion.

"Ellie sells loose shoes; Bill shills big goose oil."

Took quite a bit of "you're not actually sticking to the list". Also, weird... recursion issues with chat output.

Now a bonus round: Can anybody possibly do a long work of fiction only using calculator words? Just this post was difficult after losing just a unitary sound!
How did they end up out of alphabetical order? It might be worth alphabetizing and collecting singular+plural into single entries; s and es are available, so you can pluralize most nouns (or singularize most verbs). The list has some pairs but not all, for no particular reason.

I’d suggest dropping the capitalization too, it adds duplicates, and can often be used in both senses, e.g., bill, bell, hill, hiss…

Also note there are plenty of nouns here that can be used as verbs and verbs than can be used as nouns.

First, I think "is" should be added to that list.

Assuming punctuation is allowed, here's my masterpiece:

Big slob Ohio Bob sees Zoe boil his sole beige goose egg, sighs. She giggles. He sees his egg sizzle, sobs.

He looses his hell bees.

This is such a wonderful bit of creative writing.
You win! I got a kick out of your writing.
This is the most perfect thing I've read in awhile well done. I salute you.
Poor Ohio Bob. Well done.
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Eggless Bob obsesses, boozes. Lizzie, she sells/soles shoeses, obliges geese egg bills. "Bless!" Bob boogies; oils, gobbles? loses! Gosh, Zoe seizes - hells bells, Zoe hogs eggs! "Lies! libel!" Zoe hisses, "go, hobo!". Bob boggles.

I was wondering if there are any sentences which are also palindomes;

bob sees bob

Lee, sell Les' Eel!

Loss boss sobs. S.O.L.

...

Claude 3.5 is not bad…

Ellie sells shells. Bob, slob hobo, sees Ellie. Bob begs Ellie, "Sell shells." Ellie giggles, "Gosh, hello!" Bob loses. Bob sobs.

Ellie sees Bill. Bill sells bibles. Ellie lies, "Bill, sell bibles else." Bill sells bibles. Ellie gobbles bibles. Bill obsesses. Ellie sighs.

Liz sees Bob. Bob boils. Liz giggles. Bob hobbles. Liz besiege Bob. Bob begs Liz, "Loose." Liz goes. Bob sees highs.

Ellie sees Liz. Ellie giggles. Liz boils. Ellie bless Liz. Liz loses. Ellie sees bliss.

Ellie, Liz, Bob solos. Ellie, Liz, Bob lies. Ellie, Liz, Bob sees bellies. Ellie, Liz, Bob sees highs. Ellie, Liz, Bob giggles.

The sentence game would be more interesting, if you'd add in 2-letter words. be - go - he - hi - ho - is - oh - Oz - so

He loses his high ego, he sizzles, he begs. He seizes his bible.

A couple of weeks ago a kid comes up to me on the street carrying a calculator, like a kind of rough kid who for some reason was hanging out with a couple of his friends and enamoured with it, but not the kind of nerdling one would expect to be playing with a calculator on the street. He goes (giggling to self) “hey mate what’s the square root of 64,128,064“ clearly hoping to catch me out with some piece of mathematical hilarity… but naturally I’ve been that kid in my youth and snapped back to him, before cycling off: “8008”
That kid sure learned the meaning of "nothing new under the sun".
He actually thought I was a maths genius and shouted “Albert Einstein come back” not realising that I just did sqrt(64) in 50 microseconds and then 450 microseconds of schoolboy humour derivation. Probably more like a Feynman approximation than an Einsteinian, but maybe he’ll learn that in decades to come. Good job his pocket calculator couldn’t square 58008 or 5318008 else I probably wouldn’t have grokked it.
450us humour derivation/confirmation is good:

   (8K + 8)^2 = 64M + 2*64K + 64 = 64,128,064 (assuming decimal M, K)
one of the first things you learn with a calculator in high school is how to write boobs.
And what about all the words/phrases you can spell with the calculator upside down? for example : 7.1077345
Many of the words on the list (if not all) require the calculator to be upside down.
Aarg - you are right. should pay more attention next time.
Goofy 10-year old mode activated:

We are missing boobless 55378008

When I was a kid, SHELL.OIL was the classic.
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Note that the grep command used to compile that list is shown at the very top of the page.
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In "UNIX - A History and a Memoir", Brian Kernighan is telling the story of doing that in 1972 (chapter 4.5, about "Grep")

    grep '^[behilos]*$' /usr/dict/web2
I remember some old puzzle book, where equation was given to type into calculator and it would provide answer to a given question.

That gives me idea of "encrypting" a poem where each operation gives you next word.

Even more fun than spelling words is to actually calculate with them. lol + lol = hihi And it makes sense...
And how about words you can spell in hex, like 0xcafebabe?
Here's a one-liner to generate the list of single 8-letter hexable words from the dictionary. It doesn't include 0xcafebabe or 0xdeadbeef due to those being 2-word phrases. Of course, you can change the 8 to a 4 to make the list of 4-letter words, or change the 8 to an asterisk, so you can pick your own word combos.

< /usr/share/dict/words perl -lne 'print "$_ 0x",tr/ilzstgo/1125790/r if m/^[abcdefilzsbtgo]{8}$/ && !(m/i/ && m/l/)' | column

My all time favourite thing to spell in hex was 0xDEADBEEFCAFE
$DEADFACEBEEF

AT&T fan here, due to both Moto 6809 and MOS 6502 roots

It literally took years for me to see "0x" like I do the dollar sign "$" for hex and percent for binary. "%"

Is this still a thing?

I remember doing this c.1974 when the affordable Sinclair Scientific calculator came out, since it was such a novelty to have a calculator.

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Needs a 7-segment calculator font or at least any font with an open 4. Looks like there are lots of web fonts available that have an open 4.

Others here have pointed out boobless is missing… that’s one of the only words I saw on calculators as a fifth grader. ‘Hello’ was a distant second.

Boobless? Not boobs or boobies?
There was a short story to go with it. Guess eight year old me had a better memory. I had to Google for the bits I couldn't remember

There once was a girl with 69 boobs. That's 2 2 2 many boobs. On 51st street, she went to Dr. X and he 8 them all. She came out boobless.

I spotted the omission immediately and I knew that the moment had finally arrived: I used something that I learned in math class.
Yep, boobless, aka 55378008. Sibling story is correct, but another reason for boobless is it used all 8 digits of the calculator.
In my junior-high classes, it was something of a tease for the unfortunate late bloomers. Kids at that age are total assholes.
Took me a minute to figure out why some had decimal points.
no boobless but definitely got Goebbels, eh? :-/
You’ve made me wonder if {word}less and it’s vast number of understandable variants, are actually official words? I assume not.
Is Goebbels in the dictionary?
It's not in /usr/share/dict/words, at some point in OPs list the words start alphabetically again so I think there is another list being used.