sent

¹ American  

[sent] / sɛnt /

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of send.

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sent ² American  

[sent] / sɛnt /

noun

• senti,
  plural
• sents
  plural

1. a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, one 100th of a kroon.

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sent ¹ British  

/ sɛnt /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of send 1 send 2

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sent ² British  

/ sɛnt /

noun

1. a monetary unit of Estonia, worth one hundredth of a kroon

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• senti
  plural
• sents
  plural

Etymology

Origin of sent

First recorded in 1925–30; from Estonian senti (compare Finnish sentti ), from Latin centum “hundred”; see centum ¹

Explanation

Something that's sent has been delivered or mailed, like a sent package of cookies that you dropped off earlier at the post office. The adjective sent can be used to describe things that are on their way to a certain destination. You might find a message inside a bottle on the beach, which you read again after your sent reply is bobbing on the waves in its own bottle. Sent is also the past participle of the verb send, from the Old English root sendan, "send forth, throw, or impel."

Example Sentences

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sent senti sents

Chandler’s the type of actor who still appreciates being sent physical copies of scripts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Spokesman Majed Al Ansari said on social media that Qatar sent search-and-rescue teams to look for the crew members after their planes were downed and found the remains of one of the pilots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

The USS George Washington, the Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, is being pulled from the western Pacific and sent toward the Middle East to replace the Lincoln.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Six months ago, any one of those factors would have sent oil prices back above $100 a barrel.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026

For hours the process continued as we were shuttled from one room and official to another, questioned, fingerprinted, sent on to the next post.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

"Vecchia zimarra, senti" the bass "Coat Song" from La Boheme, and "Magische Note," an aria from Goldmark's Queen of Sheba that contains a rare recorded example of Caruso's using falsetto, are the most unusual items.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Signore noi ci siamo sole, nessuno ci senti," remarked the Signora encouragingly.

From Humour of the North by Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone) Burpee

I have seen him myself,' was his only comment; and to all questionings but one reply was vouchsafed: 'Deux fois je l'ai vu: mille fois je l'ai senti.'

From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

I guess the edittur was mad, wen he paid 50 sents charges, and found out it warnt no berthday present.

From The Bad Boy At Home And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

They say there goin to charge three sents for a letter pretty soon.

From Dere Mable Love Letters of a Rookie by G. William Breck

Pasch for his mark hath the Resurrection: Ayenst Hally-Thursday is pented Chraist's ascension: Thus in mayn own buke ay is a gude clerk; But gif the sents war gone, the cat had eat my mark.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt

Her Breath is her owne, which sents all the Yeere long of June, like a new made Hay-cocke.

From A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) by Alexander H. Chorney

God is the divine Principle of all that repre- 272:30 sents Him and of all that really exists.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy