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have sentenced

  • present 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.

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The judge said he would have sentenced him to more than 15 years if he was not constrained by law.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2023

Overall, the 20 judges who have sentenced riot defendants have given lighter sentences than prosecutors were seeking in nearly three-fourths of the cases.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2022

The court could have sentenced her to as much as 15 years on the corruption conviction.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

According to the ruling, the court should have sentenced him to somewhere between 17½ years and just under 22 years in prison, rather than between just under 22 years and 27 years in prison.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021

"All I did was tell the truth, and you have sentenced me to die, just for telling the truth. My time is now but your time will come!"

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti