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Another word for sentence

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Noun

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

    See also:

    law

Verb

  1. To pronounce judgment against

    See also:

    law

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for sentence

Noun

  1. A pronounced judgment

    See also:

    verdict

    punishment

    judgment

  2. An expressed thought

Verb
  1. See also:

    punish

    imprison

    convict

    condemn

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • He typed a short sentence, and then stopped.

  • Finally, in the trial of the king he demanded, with the Girondists, that the sentence should be pronounced by a vote of the whole people, and not simply by the Convention.

  • He left the sentence hanging and winked at her.

  • Bradshaw presided over the trial and pronounced the sentence of death.

  • He left the sentence hanging.

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