Sentence ˈsentəns I Court Years Noun Adverb Stunned

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sentence

1. a set of words expressing a statement, a question or an order, usually containing a subject and a verb. In written English sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop/period (.), a question mark (?) or an exclamation mark (!).
• SEE ALSO cleft sentence
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cleft-sentence
• Does the sentence contain an adverb?
• I was too stunned to finish my sentence.
• There are mistakes in grammar, sentence structure and punctuation.
• Let's take that paragraph apart sentence by sentence.

Extra Examples

• Complete the following sentence: ‘I love dictionaries because…’.
• Cooke was so nervous he could barely string a sentence together.
• He can barely form a grammatical sentence.
• He tells her not to end her sentences with prepositions.
• I kept reading the same sentence over and over again.
• Peter finished Jane's sentence for her.
• The argument can be distilled into a single sentence.
• Troy uttered one last sentence.
• Try to keep your sentences short.
• the opening sentence of the novel
2. the punishment given by a court
• SEE ALSO community sentence
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/community-sentence
• a jail/prison sentence
• a custodial sentence
• a harsh/stiff/heavy/lengthy sentence
• a light/lenient sentence
• The court will impose an appropriate sentence.
• The judge passed sentence (= said what the punishment would be).
• The prisoner has served (= completed) his sentence and will be released tomorrow.
• a maximum/minimum sentence of five years
• a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment
• The charges carry a sentence of up to ten years.
• She could face a sentence of between seven and ten years in jail.
• He received an 18-year sentence for attempted murder.
• to be under sentence of death
• He spent a week in custody awaiting sentence.
• He turned state's evidence in return for a reduced sentence.
• She could face a long prison sentence.
• The US Supreme Court recently upheld both of these sentences.
• The judge imposed the mandatory sentence for murder.
• The offence carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison.
• an eight-year sentence for burglary
• ex-felons who have completed their sentences

Word Origin

• Middle English (in the senses ‘way of thinking, opinion’, ‘court's declaration of punishment’, and ‘gist (of a piece of writing)’): via Old French from Latin sententia ‘opinion’, from sentire ‘feel, be of the opinion’.