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sentence

In grammar, a sentence is a group of words that follow normal grammar rules, and that, in writing, begins with a capital letter and ends with a period '.', question mark '?', or exclamation mark '!'. Usually a sentence has a subject, verb, and object. The first sentence in the Jewish holy book is, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." In law, a sentence is the punishment that a judge gives to a criminal. He received a 15-year sentence for the murder of his friend.

sentence

If a judge sentences someone, they decide on a punishment for a crime. He was sentenced to 15 years in jail for the murder of his friend.

sentence

a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language he always spoke in grammatical sentences (= condemn) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law He was condemned to ten years in prison (= conviction) (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed the conviction came as no surprise (= prison term, time) the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned he served a prison term of 15 months his sentence was 5 to 10 years he is doing time in the county jail

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Example sentence no. 354618 created a lot of confusion on the Tatoeba website.
This is a sentence that has the syllable count of a haiku.
Where is my sentence?
How can I delete a repeated sentence?
This sentence needs to be checked by a native speaker.
At the beginning of a sentence a capital letter is used.
This sentence is boring.
I'm glad that you like the sentence.
In what kind of situations would you use that sentence?
This sentence is incorrect.
The sentence is capable of two interpretations, of which the first is the exact opposite of the other.
This sentence is still ambiguous, even though it isn't long.
She translated her own sentence.
The convicted drug dealer was willing to comply with the authorities to have his death sentence reduced to a life sentence.
Compare your sentence with the one on the blackboard.
Please translate this sentence into Japanese.
The sentence is not grammatically accurate.
I can't get at the exact meaning of the sentence.
The meaning of this sentence is obscure.
The sentence is free from grammatical mistakes.
You should omit this word from the sentence.
I will appeal against the sentence.
The same sentence could have the force of a command.
All you have to do is to learn this sentence by heart.
Some years ago, learning that one had tuberculosis amounted to hearing a sentence of death.
The convict was pardoned after serving his sentence.
Make a sentence with each of these words.

Movie subtitles

You committed perjury. I'll see what I can do to get your sentence reduced.
It just took you that gigantic sentence to explain it?
No sentence, no punishment, no revenge, could ever come close to making up for what you've done.
Sentenced to death, this time there will be no commutation of sentence for him.
Accordingly, you will avoid having to carry out the death sentence passed upon the infanticide. Victorine Lippert, whose petition for clemency has been turned down.
The death sentence.
To the Templars, the captives had one sentence.
Defendant, do you accept the sentence?
Defendant, I ask you again if you accept the sentence.
The sentence is unconditional.
I advise you to accept the sentence.
As he died, he's pardoned from the rest of his sentence.
I suspend sentence on condition that you leave the city within 24 hours.
Have you anything to say before sentence is pronounced upon you?
You'd think I'd get some satisfaction out of that, but I don't because nothing. No sentence, no punishment, no revenge, could ever come close to making up for what you've done.
Let the sentence be carried out without delay!
Before the sentence, have you anything to say?
Darling, that's quite a sentence.
The basis of all morality in a sentence.
There is nothing more to be said, except the passing of sentence.
Sentence of court-martial, two dozen lashes at each ship.
Have you anything to say before the sentence of this court is passed upon you?
They'll get a legal sentence and a legal death.
A fourth conviction, according to the law. means a life sentence.
It's a 10 year jail sentence for you if you're found with Eddie.
Until her sentence is served.
I had actually intended to appeal to Your Excellency's kind heart whether she couldn't be let off the rest of the sentence in an act of grace.
There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley!
Because nothing. no sentence, no punishment, no revenge could ever come close to making up for what you've done.
When he falls on his head, and can recite the last sentence. Another one, I go.
The sentence for blackmail, Miss Graham is two to 10 years in the penitentiary.
While if you went to the penitentiary for a long sentence.
Makes possession of one punishable by a six-month jail sentence.
As for you, Monsieur La Tour La Tour. I will not yet pronounce sentence.
You think the sentence extremely lenient.
And it therefore becomes my duty.. To pronounce sentence upon you.
And sentence you to life imprisonment in the State Penitentiary.
The new Governor has commuted your brother's sentence.
My sentence was merely commuted.
Richard Roe, I sentence you to six years at hard labor. as prescribed by the laws of our sovereign state.

News and current affairs

Ochoa's sentence, apart from its extravagant cruelty, may ultimately cost taxpayers as much as a million dollars.
Given such flawed proceedings, my conviction and prison sentence come as no surprise.
The result may be a death sentence for many.
The commissions may even sentence detainees to death, with no appeal to a civilian court whatsoever.
We don't say that most people imprisoned for life committed a crime worthy of that sentence.
Her sentence was roundly supported by modernist Muslim intellectuals, who insisted that the punishment was justly applied and cannot be questioned because it has divine sanction.
Jean Kambanda, former Prime Minister of Rwanda, pled guilty to crimes against humanity and genocide and is serving a life sentence in prison.
At the conclusion of a recent broadcast, Radio Sofia slipped in a throwaway sentence about the fact that 190 bomb shelters in the capital built in Soviet times remain in good condition and are prepared to accept the public.
Writing that sentence almost makes me faint with boredom.
But the only sentence it can inflict is a forced absence from public life for a given time.
A clear reminder that the fault lines of disunity still run deep is the recent sentence of death by stoning issued to a woman by a Muslim Sharia court in Nigeria's northern region.
To see the hierarchy in this mechanism, consider that by perceiving just a few letters, you can predict the word; by looking at a few words, you can predict what the sentence means, or even the paragraph.
A French court, afraid of being too hard on a master of letters, reduced his sentence.
Once again, he was sentenced to prison, this time for yet a year's term, though the conviction is under appeal (the prosecutors are seeking a longer sentence).
Rather than a pardon, he wants parliament to pass a law allowing Tymoshenko to go to Germany for treatment, but on the condition that she would resume her prison sentence should she return to Ukraine.
NEW YORK - The recent decision by Myanmar's government to sentence pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to a further 18 months' house arrest shows how difficult it is to deal with that country's ruling generals.
After the court delivered its verdict, the regime halved the sentence and agreed to keep Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest, rather than moving her to one of its worst jails.
Alarmed by the public reaction, the Harbin magistrate ordered the case reopened, only to have the suspended sentence confirmed when the case was closed this March.
The outcry after the first BMW case was not really about the light sentence given to a rich woman, but about the lack of confidence ordinary people have in China's judicial system.
Xu Zerong, a social scientist trained at Harvard and Oxford, is serving a 13-year sentence in Guangdong Province for photocopying materials on Chinese military tactics during the 1950-53 Korean War.
In the first trial, on June 24, Karma Samdrup, 42, one of the wealthiest Tibetan businessmen in China, received a 15-year sentence from a court in Xinjiang for stealing antiques.
Despite a detailed critique of the prosecution's case by two Chinese defense lawyers, the sentence, which had been known privately among officials for several days, was confirmed.
Last year, Uganda enacted a law - attributed partly to the influence of well-funded evangelical missionaries from the US - mandating a life sentence for people caught in homosexual acts.
In Iran, sodomy can lead to a death sentence, as is true in Saudi Arabia, Hamas-controlled Gaza, and, of course, under the lash of militant groups like the Islamic State.
In Hong Kong, Zhao's sentence has sparked popular protests outside of government offices and formal objections from local officials.
Should the Nobel Committee choose to recognize Liu's courage and sacrifice in articulating these ideals, it would not only draw global attention to the injustice of Liu's 11-year sentence.
Liu's harsh prison sentence was meant as an exemplary measure, a stern warning to all other Chinese who might want to follow his path.
Although the sentence is still in limbo, Hussein publicized his acceptance of the punishment by inviting the official floggers to his office to demonstrate how an Islamic caning would be carried out.

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