Sentence

The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.

A branch that has played a significant part in the history of its territory is under sentence at the end of the summer timetables, so far as its passenger services are concerned.

The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous child rapist.

The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.

Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves.

I am told that she writes well, and that all her letters are full of sentences.

Near-synonym: clause

The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.

Noght o word spak he moore than was neede, / And that was seyd in forme and reverence / And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence […]

now to the discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence, but that, for the most part, either specious rather than solid, or to his cause nothing pertinent.

Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; […]

My sentence is for open war.

[I]f it may bee lawfull to iudge or giue any ſentence thereof, it [the author of the book of Ruth] was either Samuell, or ſome other godly Prophet vnder the raigne of Saule, [...]

By them [Martin Luther's works] we might pass sentence upon his doctrines.

The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.

Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.

1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I, The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.

Moreover, in 2002 two EPB officials in Yangcheng County, Shanxi Province, were sentenced to jail for failing to stop a chemical plant from discharging toxic waste into the drinking-water system.

On Thursday, a court in south China's Hunan province sentenced a Chinese journalist, Yang Xiaoqing, to one year in jail for extortion after he wrote articles about official corruption.

And at that point, we have sentenced a child to motherhood.

“We are empowered to deliver thee to prison; yea, the law commands us to sentence death upon the abettors of this mischief.[…]"

So as far as the older generation of German Lutherans were concerned, the abolition of the mother language sentenced death upon the church as they knew it.

But little did I know, As I cleared away that snow, I'd sentenced death upon that rose, For late that night it simply froze. I'd taken its one chance away, As I stripped it of its quilt that day. I learned a lesson late that night, ...

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Let me heare one wise man sentence it, rather then twenty Fooles, garrulous in their lengthened tattle.