Example sentences for: sentenced

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

  • A Parisian advertising copywriter has been sentenced to eight years in prison for an ad campaign in which he premeditatedly employed an archaic tense of a verb that appears on the French Cultural Ministry's Index of Officially Proscribed Franglaisms.

  • Buried fairly deep inside the metro edition of the NYT is a very brief item reporting that a defense contractor was sentenced in a procurement case.

  • “After the jury convicted a rapist in circuit court last week, Judge Ted Coleman sentenced him to prison `for the rest of your natural life with credit for the 34 days already served.

  • Several months ago, the Khmer Rouge sentenced Pol Pot to life under house arrest--hut arrest, really--for the murder of Son Sen, an old friend and colleague who plotted a coup against him this spring.

  • New Jersey teen-ager Amy Grossberg was sentenced to two and a half years in jail for the 1996 manslaughter of her baby, which was found in a trash bag after dying of massive head injuries.


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