A to Z sentences

I made this up once to deal with insomnia, but I hope it doesn't send you all to sleep...

We all know that "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contains every letter in the alphabet, but the letters aren't (introduced) in alphabetical order. In my game they are, and the sentence also has to make "reasonable sense" like the quick brown fox does.

It would take a while to make a whole sentence, so let's do it collaboratively. Please repost the entire sentence and add the last letter you used in parentheses at the end to help the next person. Example:

Amy beckoned (d)
Amy beckoned the fighters (h)

(just to make things clear, the letters introduced in order are capitalised here: Amy BeCkoneD thE FiGHters)

Let's see how short we can make it after several attempts. If the person who adds the 'z' can count the number of letters in the sentence, that would be great. (Can we beat the quick brown fox's 35?)

It should be OK to have a few sentences running in parallel, or if you need to backtrack to improve the sentence, that's fine too.

OK, you start...