Everything you need to make a good meaningful sentence (and grammatically correct, of course), is to follow common rules. Do not forget to provide your sentence with complexity, but you don't have to make them too complicated, I mean you need to use key words, they will make your thought completed. And the second point is that you need to properly organize the sentence using correct word order.
They can be used to record events from a story or a history lesson in a sequential format. They can help keep events in chronological order as you write summaries.
