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How can you use “sentence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Only the wretched Orchard wound up getting convicted, and (following the commutation of his death sentence) he spent the rest of his life in an Idaho penitentiary.
It would have been nice however, if the two papers had spent a sentence or two explaining how such a momentous market decision gets to be made, not by Congress, but by four people.
The reader wins because he is right--it is up to the writer to ensure that the reader should not be given any False Scents . Here are two additional ones to the four examples Fowler gives that cause a reader to go down the wrong track in a sentence, ending in a sort of double-take:
The original contained the sentence, “The Soviet Illegal, blending with the populace, is free of the unwelcome limelight cast on the personnel of the Soviet embassy by the local security forces.”
If Hanks had been forced to deal with his own incipient racism, that would have made his "life sentence" seem fitting--he had to lose his mortality to gain second sight--and the movie would have a real wallop.