sent

¹ American  

[sent] / sɛnt /

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of send.

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sent ² American  

[sent] / sɛnt /

noun

plural

senti, sents

1. a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, one 100th of a kroon.

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sent ¹ British  

/ sɛnt /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of send 1 send 2

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sent ² British  

/ sɛnt /

noun

1. a monetary unit of Estonia, worth one hundredth of a kroon

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Etymology

Origin of sent

First recorded in 1925–30; from Estonian senti (compare Finnish sentti ), from Latin centum “hundred”; see centum ¹

Explanation

Something that's sent has been delivered or mailed, like a sent package of cookies that you dropped off earlier at the post office. The adjective sent can be used to describe things that are on their way to a certain destination. You might find a message inside a bottle on the beach, which you read again after your sent reply is bobbing on the waves in its own bottle. Sent is also the past participle of the verb send, from the Old English root sendan, "send forth, throw, or impel."

Example Sentences

John: Sent off as favourite for Haiti Couleurs' Irish Grand National in 2025, finishing third on a day when his jumping let him down a little.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

Sent on a far-off mission to save the world from a mysterious threat, he discovers that he may not be alone in deep space.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

Sent to an animal shelter with a group of other Shiba Inu dogs after her breeder went out of business, she was adopted in 2008 by Ms. Sato, a kindergarten teacher.

From New York Times • May 24, 2024

In historian Geoffrey Robertson’s book, “The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold,” the author recounted how a judge told the jury to reconsider their not-guilty verdict.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2024

Sent into Washington’s camp disguised as a peddler, she would bring back solid reports on the number of cannon and the number of Continental troops, regiment by regiment.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen