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verbpronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of lawtype of:
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noun(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
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"his sentence was 5 to 10 years"nounthe period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
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"he always spoke in grammatical sentences"nouna string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a languagetype of:
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- and A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.
- so subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
- then subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
- really in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
- stop a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- ok an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence
- than A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that.
- fine an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence
- case nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
- point a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations