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UK
/sˈɛntəns/
]
[ US /ˈsɛntəns/ ]
[ US /ˈsɛntəns/ ]
NOUN
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(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
the conviction came as no surprise -
the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
his sentence was 5 to 10 years
he served a prison term of 15 months
he is doing time in the county jail -
a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language
he always spoke in grammatical sentences
VERB
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pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
He was condemned to ten years in prison
How To Use sentence In A Sentence
- It's a bit unexpected not to include any measures of syntactic complexity - even something as simple as mean sentence length.
- I'm sure there will be a generous amount of worthies stepping forward to parse every sentence, on the eternal quest for the definitive admission that it's over.
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- Thos who eat most are not always fattest; those who read most,[sentence dictionary] not always wisest.
- Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
- In writing poetry, one is unfettered by the normal rules of sentence structure.
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- In the end the sentence-for criminal conspiracy, corruption and bribery-was a compromise.
- In the first sentence, the ship is described as a frigate, which has a pretty strong military connotation. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Five Page Challenge!
- This so-called ‘prop it’ is a dummy subject, serving merely to fill a structural need in English for a subject in a sentence.
