Sentence is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SENTENCE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to declare judicially the punishment
• declare the punishment decided for (an offender)
• To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
• To decree or announce as a sentence.
• To utter sententiously.
• pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
• pass sentence on (a convicted person)
NOUN:
• a set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command, and consisting of a main clause and sometimes one or more subordinate clauses.
• a series of signs or symbols expressing a proposition in an artificial or logical language.
• the punishment assigned to a defendant found guilty by a court, or fixed by law for a particular offence
• sequence of words capable of standing alone as a statement, question, or command
• Sense; meaning; significance.
• An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
• A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
• In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.
• A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
• A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.
• a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language
• (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
• the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to declare judicially the extent of punishment to be imposed

Words related to SENTENCE

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Words that contain SENTENCE

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How to use SENTENCE in a sentence

• The faulty feature in the plan is found in the first sentence, which requires the electors to vote for two persons for president.
• This kind of reasoning has received its sentence once for all from Bishop Butler.
• I was at the same time wholly unconscious of ever having met with the discourse or the sentence which the verses were most like, nor do I believe I ever had seen or heard either.
• Peirce, that no correct sentence is elliptical, and his impracticable project of a grammar founded on this principle, are among the grossest of possible absurdities.
• It might be, perhaps, that this was merely a formal sentence, as were the old penalties for high treason abandoned long before they were repealed.
• The Secretary of State cannot, either in his own person or in that of those who are under him, put himself in communication with the friends of individuals who are under sentence.
• Stetson has written on this subject with great force and earnestness, and it will not be amiss to quote a sentence as to the advantages enjoyed by the technically workman.
• They were all under sentence of banishment for various terms.
• She did not wish to move or speak, or form a sentence even in her mind.
• Hans had heard me sentenced, and probably enough feared that he who also had committed the crime of escaping from Dingaan, might be called on to share that sentence.
• You should put some confidence in women when they pass sentence on the character of a man.
• O, what a sentence was that! It ran from soul to soul like electric fire, and nerved the arm of thousands to fight in the holy cause of Freedom.
• The one in the last seat must complete the sentence and return to his seat, ending the race.
• The leader whispers some information to his left hand neighbor, remembering the exact sentence or sentences.
• You will see that the sentence is carried into effect at daybreak.
• They thought a very, very long time before they uttered a short sentence.
• Now it may be a little descriptive touch, now a sentence or two out of a conversation, now plain narration of events.
• A sentence of excommunication was passed on the city, and King Henry hastened to Norwich to preside at the trial of the prisoners.
• The recollection of the sentence passed on Sergius and Virginius aided them above every thing else.
• Whatever might have been felt before her arrival, her eager declarations immediately made every look and sentence as friendly as she could desire.
• Every sentence is exciting, and every sentence is beautiful.
• But Justinian, having received large presents of money from him, immediately annulled the sentence.
• A bugle call, distant but clear, cut my sentence in half.
• Since the confirmation of that sentence a letter has been addressed by Mr.
• They had reached the doomed city in which I was at present, two days before its sentence was pronounced.
• Sentence by sentence Jack learned much that was useful, a little that was needful.

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