Sentence

Definition of sentence:

part of speech: noun

Opinion: a judgment pronounced on a criminal by a court or judge: a maxim: ( gram.) a number of words containing a complete thought.

part of speech: noun

Judgment pronounced; maxim; period in writing.

part of speech: verb

To pronounce judgment on: to condemn.

part of speech: noun

Judgment, opinion, or decision; judgment pronounced by a court; a series of words containing a subject and a predicate, and expressing a thought completely.

part of speech: verb

To condemn by judgment of a court.

Usage examples for sentence:

• The prisoner being called in again, heard his sentence with perfect composure. "The History of Napoleon Buonaparte", John Gibson Lockhart.

• His sentence was fifteen, wasn't it? "Every Man for Himself", Hopkins Moorhouse.

• To what purpose, with my impossible sentence "Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist", Alexander Berkman.

• We, therefore, sentence you to Sing Sing for five years,- Go to the next. "Diary in America, Series One", Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat).