Constructing regex pattern to match sentence

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String regex = "^\\s+[A-Za-z,;'\"\\s]+[.?!]$"

^ means “begins with”
\\s means white space
+ means 1 or more
[A-Za-z,;'"\\s] means any letter, ,, ;, ', ", or whitespace character
$ means “ends with”

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