has sentenced
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present perfectof sentence (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
sentencenouna 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
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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