Example sentences for: sentenced

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

  • Miscellany: An American reporter says he saw Pol Pot tried for genocide and sentenced to life imprisonment by a Khmer Rouge tribunal July 25.

  • 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.

  • The NYT notes that when a similar smuggling operation was recently uncovered in China, the ringleaders were sentenced to death.

  • Kurdish rebel Abdullah Ocalan was sentenced to death.

  • 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.


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