Definition: 1. A string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language. 2. (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed. 3. The period of time a prisoner is imprisoned. 4. Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law.
Use 'sentence' in a sentence:
1. He was sentenced to death by electrocution.
2. The sentence of the court was twelve years' hard labour.
3. The murderer was given three life sentences, to run concurrently.
4. He broke off in the middle of a sentence.
5. The judge gave him a custodial sentence.
6. In the sentence, 'I sent her a postcard', the word 'her' is in the dative.
7. The judge passed sentence.
8. He was sentenced to two years' youth custody.
9. The courts were empowered to impose the death sentence for certain crimes.
10. John was given a four-month suspended sentence.
11. The court is expected to pass sentence later today.
12. She stopped in mid-sentence.
13. In the sentence, 'I saw him today', the word 'him' is in the accusative.
14. The judge gave him a nine-month suspended sentence.
15. Your task is to interchange words so that the sentence makes sense.
16. Barry broke off in mid-sentence.
17. The court waited in silence for the judge to pass sentence.
18. The sentence had been wrongly translated.
19. He wrote the title on the blackboard, then copied out the text, sentence by sentence.
20. The offence carries a mandatory life sentence.
21. The prison sentences will run concurrently.
22. She was still young, he said, and that would be taken into account when deciding her sentence.
23. Criminals could at one time be sentenced to penal servitude.
24. That sentence is not grammatical.
25. The sentence "kicked the ball the man" is meaningless.
26. The judge sentenced him to five years in prison.
27. The subject of a sentence and its verb must agree in number.
28. Passing sentence, the judge said it all had the appearance of a con trick.
29. He was sentenced to three years inside.
30. Take, for example, the simple sentence: "The man climbed up the hill."
31. The judge has the final say on the sentence.
32. A compound sentence contains two or more clauses.
33. The example sentences in this dictionary are printed in italic type.
34. Spoken language contains many incomplete sentences.
35. He was given a four-year sentence.
36. Reducing prison sentences would send the wrong signals to criminals.
37. A sentence can be divided up into meaningful segments.
38. There were extenuating circumstances and the defendant did not receive a prison sentence.
39. She was pardoned after serving ten years of a life sentence.
40. He was sentenced to two years in a labour camp.
41. The judge will pronounce sentence today.
42. The prisoner has served his sentence and will be released tomorrow.
43. She confessed her astonishment at her light sentence when her father visited her at the jail.
44. He was convicted of assaulting a police officer but he got off with a light sentence.
45. His sentence was overturned by the appeal court.
46. The court granted him leave to appeal against the sentence.
47. a well-known phrase or sentence that gives advice or says sth that is generally true, for example Waste not, want not.
48. Long prison sentences can be a very effective deterrent for offenders.
