Example Sentences

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However, it rapidly became clear that the courts were sentencing thousands of offenders to IPPs - some with minimum terms as low as 10-18 months.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2018

I was prosecuting cases before there were sentencing guidelines.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2015

“Telling someone that college is not right for him seems harsh and classist, vaguely Dickensian,” Professor X writes, “as though we were sentencing him to a life in the coal mines.”

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2011

Every felt as though he were sentencing a bunch of forest ponies to the pits, and the dumb hopelessness of their demeanour plucked at his young heart-strings….

From Anthony Lyveden by Yates, Dornford

You don't need to look as if I were sentencing you to be hanged before sundown.

From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Oemler, Marie Conway