sentence

The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.

The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.

A branch that has played a significant part in the history of its territory is under sentence at the end of the summer timetables, so far as its passenger services are concerned.

The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous child rapist.

The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.

A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.

Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves.

I am told that she writes well, and that all her letters are full of sentences.

A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using e.g. the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and en

Near-synonym: clause

The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.

To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.

The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.

Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.

To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.

“We are empowered to deliver thee to prison; yea, the law commands us to sentence death upon the abettors of this mischief.[…]"

So as far as the older generation of German Lutherans were concerned, the abolition of the mother language sentenced death upon the church as they knew it.

To utter sententiously.

Let me heare one wise man sentence it, rather then twenty Fooles, garrulous in their lengthened tattle.