Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

had sentenced

  • past perfect
    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.

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

A juvenile court in the Paris suburb of Creteil late Wednesday said it had sentenced two of the men, who were 15 years old at the time, to 10 years in jail.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

As Salon wrote in a 2012 interview with Rushdie, a BBC reporter called the writer and asked "How does it feel" now that the Ayatollah Khomeini had sentenced him to death?

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2022

The judge who had sentenced him in 2001 was the same judge who granted him compassionate release two decades on.

From BBC ● May 14, 2022

It was the first time a court in New Zealand had sentenced a person to prison for the rest of their life.

From Reuters ● Nov. 8, 2021

Sixteen years earlier, on August 20, 1947, a U.S.- led war tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, had sentenced seven Nazi doctors to death by hanging.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot