Example sentences for: sentenced

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

  • For a first offense, such as growing marijuana at home, you may be sentenced to five years in prison under federal law.

  • According to the EFL Gazette [June 1988], a judge in Birmingham, England, was outraged that a Pakistani, resident in Britain for 23 years, had the effrontery to be so ignorant of English as to need an interpreter in court; he sentenced the culprit to two years' probation with the condition that he learn the language.

  • Little does the impostor know that he has just been sentenced to death, for what was really said was, Shall we kill him?

  • Derrick Robertson got sentenced the other day to four months in prison for having consensual sex with a 20-year-old (female) private.

  • 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.


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