Word Finder - sentence

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The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.

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

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The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

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The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous cattle rustler.

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A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

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A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.

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(grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop.

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

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A formula with no free variables.

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Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.

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Sense; meaning; significance.

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One's opinion; manner of thinking.

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A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.

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To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.

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

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To decree or announce as a sentence.

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To utter sententiously.

He typed a short sentence, and then stopped.

He left the sentence hanging and winked at her.

Finally, in the trial of the king he demanded, with the Girondists, that the sentence should be pronounced by a vote of the whole people, and not simply by the Convention.

Bradshaw presided over the trial and pronounced the sentence of death.

He left the sentence hanging.

Before the officer finished his sentence Prince Andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised his riding whip.

He was charged with murder for which there was a mandatory death sentence.

Stealing supplies will remain an offense which could result in a jail sentence.

She took it and read the single sentence.

But in 1696 for his boldness in granting absolution on the scaffold to Sir John Friend and Sir William Parkyns, who had attempted the assassination of William, he was obliged to flee, and for the rest of his life continued under sentence of outlawry.

The maximum sentence is two years imprisonment, or a fine, or both.

Griffin then earned a two-year suspended prison sentence for his views on the Holocaust.

He received a two year suspended sentence in April 1998 for inciting racial hatred.

She frowned without finishing the sentence.

This royal bride died of consumption, leaving no living child, and her husband took in 1513, as his second wife, Elizabeth Stafford, daughter of that duke of Buckingham upon whom the old duke of Norfolk, the tears upon his cheeks, was forced to pass sentence of death.

Words and images came tripping to my finger ends, and as I thought out sentence after sentence, I wrote them on my braille slate.

It was a death sentence, and Damian saw the realization in Jake's eyes before the newbie left for the weapons room.

He left the sentence hanging, as if it were too horrible to put into words.

It may not be used except when actually ordered in the sentence, and must be of a pattern approved by a secretary of state.

He was sentenced to a sentence of imprisonment or youth custody for a term not exceeding six months.

His duties are described in detail by the king's regulations, but may be summed up as consisting of seeing that the charges are in order, pointing out any informalities or defects in the charges or in the constitution of the court, seeing that any witness required by prosecutor or prisoner is summoned, keeping the minutes of the proceedings, advising on matters of law which arise at any time after the warrant for the courtmartial is issued, drawing up the findings and sentence, and forwarding the minutes when completed to the admiralty.

He bristled at the mention of Rhyn in the same sentence as Andre.  One half-brother had been noble, courageous, honorable, willing to sacrifice himself for their cause.  Rhyn was the opposite.

There is to be no " stay of execution "; the episcopal sentence is to prevail until the provincial synod otherwise decide.

He had already begun his labours as a historian, but after serving his sentence in 1837, found himself debarred till 1839 from completing his course at Halle, where in 1842 he obtained a professorship. Elected to the National Assembly at Frankfort in 1848, he joined the Right Centre party, and was chosen reporter of the projected constitution.

The last sentence was the clincher.

The Lords condemned the man, but they condemned him to an easy sentence.

Nevertheless, when the trial proceeded, he voted with the majority which declared Louis to be guilty, but recommended that the penalty should be postponed until the cessation of hostilities, and that the sentence should then be ratified by the Convention or by some other legislative body.

While merely a prior of Bec he led the opposition to the uncanonical marriage of Duke William with Matilda of Flanders (1053) and carried matters so far that he incurred a sentence of exile.

After twenty-two days they were called up to receive sentence.

It was necessary for his own good repute and the future of his work that a definitive sentence should be pronounced and his name cleared once and for all.

This sentence from Browne's spiritual autobiography contains the root of the whole matter, and explains the title of his other chief work, also of 1582, A Treatise of Reformation without tarrying for any, and of the wickedness of those Preachers which will not reform till the Magistrate command or compel them.

The political impotence of the prime minister was plainly evident in the military proceedings against Kramarz, in which Stiirgkh shook hands with the accused and gave evidence in his favour, but without being able to avert the death sentence passed by the military court, though he did at least prevent the execution of the sentence.

On his return he took strong parliamentary measures against Presbyterians, and consequently, at a provincial synod held at St Andrews in April 1586, he was accused of heresy and excommunicated, but at the next General Assembly the sentence was remitted as illegal.

In 1587 and 1588, however, fresh accusations were brought against him, and he was again excommunicated, though afterwards on the inducement of his old opponent, Andrew Melville, the sentence was again remitted.

In the trial of Louis XVI., Buzot voted for death, but with appeal to the people and postponement of sentence.

The capital sentence was commuted on the scaffold to banishment, first to Siberia and then to Novgorod.

The subject of the sentence precedes the verb and the object follows it.

Now, corruption strictly interpreted would imply the deliberate sale of justice, and this Bacon explicitly denies, affirming that he never " had bribe or reward in his eye or thought when he pronounced any sentence or order."

A sentence from the Essays can rarely be mistaken for the production of any other writer.

Fortunately some informality prevented the sentence being executed, and he was soon afterwards acquitted and set at liberty.

In a simple interrogative sentence the introductory particle before the verb is a, and the positive answer consists in a repetition of the verb; a ddaw Dafydd ?

Sentence of exile was passed, his house was razed and his grandson Archidamus II.

Letters exist written by Colbert to the judges requiring them to sentence to the oar as many criminals as possible, including all those who had been condemned to death; and the convict once chained to the bench, the expiration of his sentence was seldom allowed to bring him release.

No remonstrances on the part of the queen, of Pole or the English clergy could induce the pope to withdraw his sentence except to declare that the cardinal still held the position of legatus natus inherent in the primatial see.

Innocent confirmed the sentence, which remained in force for two years.

Warned by this that Amsterdam was hardly a safe place of residence for him any longer, Spinoza had already left the city before the sentence of excommunication was pronounced.

In this sentence we find interest of all kinds blended together, and the natural economic tendencies directly counteracted by the moral and religious law.

O'Reilly was arrested at Dublin, where his regiment was then quartered, tried by court-martial for concealing his knowledge of an impending mutiny, and sentenced to be shot, but the sentence was subsequently commuted to twenty years' penal servitude.

In 1558 he published his "Appellation" to the nobles, estates and commonalty against the sentence of death recently pronounced upon him, and along with it a stirring appeal "To his beloved brethren, the Commonalty of Scotland," urging that the care of religion fell to them also as being "God's creatures, created and formed in His own image," and having a right to defend their conscience against persecution.

In 1757 he had formed part of the court martial which had condemned Admiral Byng, and had been active among those who had endeavoured to secure a pardon for him; but neither he nor those who had acted with him could produce any serious reason why the sentence should not be carried out.