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sentence

n.

A pronounced judgment
judgment, edict, dictum, decree, order, doom, determination, decision, pronouncement, considered opinion, censure, penalty, condemnation; see also judgment 3, punishment, verdict.
An expressed thought
Kinds of sentences, sense 2, include: simple, complex, compound, compound-complex, kernel, transformed, declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory, statement, question, command, exclamation.

sentence Synonyms

sentence

v.

pronounce judgment, adjudge, adjudicate, send up, confine, impound, incarcerate, jail, judge, doom, send to prison, send up the river*; see also condemn 1, convict, imprison, punish.

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Another word for sentence

noun

A judicial decision, especially one setting the punishment to be inflicted on a convicted person:

judgment. (Slang) rap¹. See law

verb

To pronounce judgment against:

condemn, damn, doom. See law

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Bradshaw presided over the trial and pronounced the sentence of death.
Look at the sentences in paragraph 37.
Stealing supplies will remain an offense which could result in a jail sentence.
Griffin then earned a two-year suspended prison sentence for his views on the Holocaust.
He was charged with murder for which there was a mandatory death sentence.

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