text: The kind of sentence you are taking about is called a "pangram".  Most of them repeat letters, though you can avoid that if you stretch things just a bit.\n\nTry this newspaper headline-style effort:\n\n"Glum Schwartzkopf vex'd by NJ IQ"\n\n(See the link below, which includes a whole list of sentences using every letter.)\n\nThe best-known sentence that uses all the letters (but repeats some) and widely used for testing typewriters (at one time!) and providing complete samples of fonts, is of course,\n"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."\n\n(The shortest one I knew, till I research for this question was: Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. [30 letters])