nominal sentence

Had he been competently represented, the jury might well have failed to concur on a death sentence.

Before he could finish the sentence the Hole-keeper said snappishly, "Well, drop out again—quick!"

Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.

Sentence of fine and imprisonment passed upon lord Bacon in the house of peers for bribery.

John Wilkes released from the tower by the memorable sentence of chief justice Pratt.

It seeks the shortest phrase or sentence and adds successively all the modifiers, making no omissions.