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sentenced

  • past participle
    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.
  • past tense form
    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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In its first verdicts handed down last week, Baghdad's Karkh Criminal Court sentenced nine men to jail terms of up to 20 years.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

McNeil, of Fairlie, North Ayrshire, was back in the dock to be sentenced while Sangster, of Kilbirnie, did not appear and a warrant was granted for her arrest.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Lindsay was told he would be sentenced at the conclusion of that trial.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

In the novel, Myshkin does not present the harrowing experience as his own but as the firsthand account of an acquaintance who had been sentenced to death for a political offense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“If it’s a fictional place, then why did you insist on me being sentenced until I was eighteen?”

From "City Spies" by James Ponti