How to Use sentence in a Sentence

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• He is serving a 10-year sentence for armed robbery.
• Their lawyers had sought lighter sentences for the men.
  — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020
• That sentence will be served at the same time as the others.
  — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 8 July 2020
• The sentence is the first handed down in over a decade for such a charge.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 26 May 2023
• Glossier and willpower rarely fall in the same sentence.
  — Lindsay Schallon, Glamour, 6 Mar. 2018
• The motion asked that the sentence be stayed, or put on hold.
  — NBC News, 16 Mar. 2022
• Forgive me for putting their names in the same sentence.
  — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Nov. 2020
• The exact length of the sentence was to be left to Boynton.
  — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
• The maximum sentence for the charge is one year in prison.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2023
• Each word of those rules can be pushed around to form new sentences.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• What is your cryptic one-sentence tease for the third episode?
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• The charges against both men could result in a life sentence or the death penalty.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2022
• Then comes the final sentence, like the twist in a horror movie.
  — Garry Kasparov, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2021
• Because there’s plenty for the two to talk about in that sentence alone.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2021
• What is a reader supposed to take away from a sentence like that?
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 18 Mar. 2020
• Not just one lame assertion but two, and in the same sentence.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2020
• Six of those counts had a maximum sentence of life in prison.
  — Vogue, 11 Dec. 2018
• Without such a deal, both faced sentences that could have kept them in prison for the rest of their lives.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2023
• Dozens of Carr’s friends came to his defense in court and asked the judge for a light sentence.
  — Krista Torralva, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Gutierrez-Ruiz tried not to let his guard down for the rest of his sentence.
  — Chris Outcalt, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2017
• His ability to find words and form sentences has grown.
  — Lydia Woolever, Popular Mechanics, 28 Nov. 2018
• Cosby has served a little less than two years of his sentence.
  — Linsey Davis, ABC News, 30 June 2021
• The man quickly earned himself a five-year jail sentence.
  — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2020
• News website founder fights fines and six-year sentence.
  — Brett Haensel, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2020
• Grab a pen, because some of her sentences are just too good to forget.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 11 July 2018
• Here’s the bizarre state of present-day college football in one sentence.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 10 Aug. 2022
• Yes, that sentence kinda reads like a weird mad libs, but keep up!
  — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 5 July 2019
• The guilty plea is likely to lead to a prison sentence of between two and two-and-a-half years.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2020
• Each count carries a sentence of two to five years in prison if convicted.
  — Alicia Fabbre, Daily Southtown, 11 Oct. 2017
• But there are all kinds of lessons in that sentence about nature forcing us to slow down . . .
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 20 Mar. 2021

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• The defendant was sentenced and fined.
• Now, five of the group have been sentenced to time behind bars.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 16 May 2023
• Those guidelines mean a judge could sentence him to a longer prison term.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2022
• The judge could choose to sentence based solely on those guidelines.
  — CBS News, 25 Apr. 2021
• He was sentenced to a decade in prison and is scheduled to be released next year.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2020
• Prosecutors have asked the judge to sentence him to life in prison.
  — Nicole Hong, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
• Allen is now the third woman to be sentenced to death in Arizona.
  — Robert Newhouse, Teen Vogue, 8 Aug. 2017
• The judge could also sentence her for the new misdemeanor charge.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2022
• She will be sentenced at another time and faces up to life in prison.
  — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
• After he was caught, he was sentenced to eight years in prison.
  — Amanda Marrazzo, McHenry County, 11 June 2018
• King has pleaded guilty to her role in the scheme and will be sentenced in August.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2018
• Texas then used the footage to sentence my client, Gabriel Hall, to death.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 28 Dec. 2022
• Driver pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four years in prison.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
• He was sentenced to just over eight months in jail and will be on probation for two years.
  — oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2020
• The church likened today’s police to those who sentenced Christ to death.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, latimes.com, 30 May 2018
• Wilson pleaded guilty to a robbery charge and was sentenced to three years in prison.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com, 3 June 2019
• She was sentenced to time served and two years probation.
  — CBS News, 31 Mar. 2018
• Now a judge has sentenced the customer to work at a fast-food job to avoid further jail time.
  — Amber Ferguson, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• Prosecutors asked the judge to sentence her to nine-and-a-half years in prison.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 4 Aug. 2022
• Ziegler faces up to a year in jail when he is sentenced on Jan. 4.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• In September, a judge would sentence him to six years in prison.
  — Jessica Contrera, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Sep. 2022
• Soon after a court sentenced him to prison for two years for blasphemy.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017
• Many of her targets in those corruption probes would be sentenced to years in prison.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2024
• Yemeni journalists held five years and sentenced to death.
  — Lydia Belanger, Fortune, 1 June 2020
• If the jury recommends it, they could be sentenced to death.
  — Rafael Olmeda, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 July 2018
• She was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony, according to her lawyers.
  — Women's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
• He was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison last month.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• He was sentenced to two years probation and six months house arrest.
  — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 9 June 2018
• He was sentenced to 42 years in state prison and has served less than half of that.
  — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• He was sentenced last November and served eight months.
  — Johnny Diaz, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024