sentence
IPA: sˈɛntʌns
noun
- (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
- The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- (obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
- (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and, in modern writing, when using e.g. the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
- (logic) A formula with no free variables.
- (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
- (obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
- (obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.
- (archaic) A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.
verb
- To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.
- (especially law or poetic) To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.
- (obsolete) To utter sententiously.
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Examples of "sentence" in Sentences
- The wording of the first sentence is funny.
- The introductory paragraph includes the sentence.
- The introductory paragraph includes this sentence.
- The first sentence in the paragraph is flatly false.
- The last sentence of the third paragraph is unfinished.
- The sentences are too long, and the language is pompous.
- The' was the first word in the sentence and was uncapitalized.
- The above sentence in the second paragraph needs corroboration.
- The change to the second sentence renders the paragraph incoherent.
- Masterly simplification of the last sentence is of the opening paragraph.