While recent popular music scholarship has begun to address the definition of phrase in the repertory, it is still a topic of debate among scholars. Despite the attention sentence structure has received in Western art music scholarship, it has gone relatively unexamined in popular music study. In this paper, I make a distinction between the sentence within a single phrase and the SRDC (Statement-Restatement-Departure Conclusion) phrase group by examining several songs from a variety of genres that have all charted in the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 year-end charts since 1990. Focusing on lyric, rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, and performance aspects I examine these in relation to the sentence model and compare them with larger SRDC patterns. In so doing, I contribute not only a more nuanced interpretation of the sentence and SRDC pattern in recent popular songs but also a greater understanding of phrase in the repertory.