diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Lorem.java b/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Lorem.java
index fb1966e9..fe1268d5 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Lorem.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Lorem.java
@@ -74,14 +74,36 @@ public class Lorem {
         return faker.fakeValuesService().resolve("lorem.words", this, faker);
     }
 
-    public String sentence(int wordCount) {
-        return capitalize(join(words(wordCount + faker.random().nextInt(6)), " ") + ".");
-    }
-
+    /**
+     * Create a sentence with a random number of words within the range 4..10.
+     * @return a random sentence
+     */
     public String sentence() {
         return sentence(3);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Create a sentence with a random number of words within the range (wordCount+1)..(wordCount+6).
+     * @param wordCount
+     * @return a random sentence
+     */
+    public String sentence(int wordCount) {
+        return sentence(wordCount, 6);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Create a sentence with a random number of words within the range (wordCount+1)..(wordCount+randomWordsToAdd).</p>
+     * 
+     * Set {@code randomWordsToAdd} to 0 to generate sentences with a fixed number of words.
+     * @param wordCount
+     * @param randomWordsToAdd
+     * @return a random sentence
+     */
+    public String sentence(int wordCount, int randomWordsToAdd) {
+        int numberOfWordsToAdd = randomWordsToAdd == 0 ? 0 : faker.random().nextInt(randomWordsToAdd);
+        return capitalize(join(words(wordCount + numberOfWordsToAdd), " ") + ".");
+    }
+
     public List<String> sentences(int sentenceCount) {
         List<String> sentences = new ArrayList<String>(sentenceCount);
         for (int i = 0; i < sentenceCount; i++) {
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/LoremTest.java b/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/LoremTest.java
index b8011c56..d35ad4de 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/LoremTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/LoremTest.java
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 package com.github.javafaker;
 
-import org.junit.Test;
-
 import static com.github.javafaker.matchers.MatchesRegularExpression.matchesRegularExpression;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.isEmptyOrNullString;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.isEmptyString;
@@ -9,6 +7,8 @@ import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.not;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
 
+import org.junit.Test;
+
 public class LoremTest extends AbstractFakerTest {
     @Test
     public void shouldCreateFixedLengthString() {
@@ -72,4 +72,25 @@ public class LoremTest extends AbstractFakerTest {
     public void testCharactersMinimumMaximumLengthIncludeUppercase() {
         assertThat(faker.lorem().characters(1, 10), matchesRegularExpression("[a-zA-Z\\d]{1,10}"));
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testSentence() {
+        assertThat(faker.lorem().sentence(), matchesRegularExpression("(\\w+\\s?){4,10}\\."));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testSentenceWithWordCount() {
+        assertThat(faker.lorem().sentence(10), matchesRegularExpression("(\\w+\\s?){11,17}\\."));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testSentenceWithWordCountAndRandomWordsToAdd() {
+        assertThat(faker.lorem().sentence(10, 10), matchesRegularExpression("(\\w+\\s?){10,20}\\."));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testSentenceFixedNumberOfWords() {
+        assertThat(faker.lorem().sentence(10, 0), matchesRegularExpression("(\\w+\\s?){10}\\."));
+    }
+
 }