sentenced

past tense of sentence

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of sentenced If convicted, Jones could be sentenced to several decades behind bars. Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025 Porter faces up to four years in prison when he is sentenced in December 2025. Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025 He was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay almost $400,000 in restitution. Steve Belanger, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025 The New York Times reported that in November 1993, he was sentenced to another year in prison for a parole violation. Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025 Marwan Barghouti, 66, has been imprisoned by Israel since 2002 and was sentenced in 2004 to five life sentences for his role in attacks during the Second Intifada—the Palestinian armed uprising that followed the breakdown of the 1993 Oslo Accords. Karl Vick, Time, 23 Oct. 2025 His wife, Rebecca Haro, was charged with two crimes — murder and filing a false report — and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing the day Jake Haro will be sentenced. Madeline Morrison, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2025 Fernandes Anderson was sentenced to a month in prison, three years of probation and was ordered to pay $13,000 in restitution early last month. Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025 McCourt pleaded guilty to third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, in June as part of a plea agreement and was sentenced to probation, court records show. Katie Langford, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sentenced
Verb
  • The exchange with the radio host went too far even for some of Mamdani’s Democratic critics, who condemned the conversation as Islamophobic.
    New York Times, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • His legal team condemned the plan as unconstitutional and punitive, warning that without assurances from Liberia, Abrego Garcia could be sent back to El Salvador.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Rossi protested his innocence and claimed he was punished so strictly because of his prominent role in Italian football, to make an example.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Pickens' antics were on full display in Dallas’ 44-22 win over the Washington Commanders last week, and the NFL has punished him accordingly.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement If Earth is ultimately doomed—if the sun will begin to incinerate us in about a billion years—Mars wouldn’t do as a safe harbor, since that planet would be put to the torch as well.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The drama doesn’t stop, and the trailer for The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Season 3 just dropped, revealing that MomTok could be doomed.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Sentenced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sentenced. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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