Example Sentences

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A South Korean court has sentenced a woman who blackmailed football star Son Heung-min to four years in prison.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

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

A court in Zambia has sentenced two men to two years in prison for attempting to use witchcraft to kill President Hakainde Hichilema.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 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

He cut it down, and they informed the Justice of Peace, and he has sentenced him to three months' imprisonment.

From The Light Shines in Darkness by Maude, Aylmer