Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

has sentenced

  • present perfect
    of sentence (3rd person singular).
    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:

Iran has sentenced award-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi to five years and one month in prison and ordered the seizure of of all of his assets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

A court in Kosovo has sentenced two Kosovo Serbs to life imprisonment and another to a 30-year jail term for taking part in what it described as a "terrorist" attack in September 2023.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

The government has responded by banning demonstrations and the judiciary has sentenced several dozen people to three years in prison for disturbing the peace.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

She’s all but doomed to be bourgeois and neurotic, as if a juvenile court has sentenced her to live in a New Yorker cartoon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025

These fellows help me kill time over at Yale, to which the governor has sentenced me for four years.”

From The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air by Margaret Penrose