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  • present progressive
    of sentence.
    sentence
    noun
    a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.

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Virtually every weekday, judges are sentencing rioters or accepting their guilty pleas while carving out room on their dockets for trials.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

In our federal justice system, there are sentencing guidelines that judges use when a defendant is convicted.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2022

Judges who are sentencing criminal defendants often consider aggravating and mitigating factors.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2019

In Brownsville, like McAllen, magistrates are sentencing packed rooms of defendants in the morning and again in the afternoon.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2018

You are sentencing yourselves to each other for life; it's a long penalty to pay if you make a mistake.

From I Walked in Arden by Jack Crawford