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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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The pardon does not appear to extend to a separate case in December where Najib was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Court documents show that treatment had already begun before he was sentenced.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

She told Collins that Walters had been sentenced to nearly a century in prison.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Jimmy Lai, the 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in February after being found guilty of foreign collusion and seditious publication.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

This time, the women were sentenced to sixty days in jail.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling