How to Use death sentence in a Sentence

death sentence

noun

• She received a death sentence for the murders.
• In the world of TV tropes, that's a death sentence right there.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 18 Sep. 2022
• That’s 85% of the time, just about a death sentence in postseason play.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2022
• What takes so long? Justin Brooks: In her case, the first thing was to get her death sentence reversed.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022
• Carter appealed his death sentence, and in 1992 was again sentenced to die.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Nov. 2022
• The plea spared him the possibility of a death sentence.
  — Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2023
• At least eight jurors in such a case would have to agree on the imposition of a death sentence.
  — By Andrew Powell | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner, 16 Apr. 2023
• Sodais said that feeling abandoned by the U.S. was like a death sentence.
  — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2022
• More than 100 protesters have been charged with crimes that carry the death sentence.
  — WIRED, 25 Feb. 2023
• The jury had to reach a unanimous decision for the death sentence.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2022
• Müller was an exception, receiving a death sentence from a Greek court for his role in the reprisals.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
• Bundy avoided the death sentence by agreeing to testify against Clark as part of a plea deal.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 16 Oct. 2023
• But many here have fled airstrikes multiple times and say that going back is a death sentence.
  — Yan Naing, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• Today, a dancer’s dance cannot be enjoyed when a person is on the gallows for the death sentence and performs the last dance of his life.
  — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2023
• Iran confirms the first death sentence for a protester.
  — CBS News, 18 Nov. 2022
• The drug is by no means a cure, but progress occurs at the margin and some patients who had what amounted to a death sentence now have hope to live.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
• The federal death sentence is the first to be handed down since the election of Joe Biden as president.
  — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• For a death sentence to be handed down, the jury must be unanimous.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 26 June 2023
• While Kate had the ability to leave the state, most people do not, and a situation like this could be a death sentence.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2023
• The student revolt isn’t a death sentence for this woman-only school.
  — The Editors, National Review, 22 Mar. 2023
• Mulero told him on that visit that her attorney advised her to accept the guilty plea that came with a death sentence.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022
• So until people changed it, could Mr. Jones carry out a death sentence?
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2024
• His death sentence follows years of appeals to state and federal courts.
  — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 21 Sep. 2022
• For a film, this could have been a death sentence for further iterations.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2023
• If convicted, Bowers, 50, could get the death sentence.
  — Peter Smith and Mark Scolforo, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
• In the Jim Crow South, for a Black person to step outside norms of behavior established by whites could be a death sentence.
  — Eric Foner, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
• Shaw decided to plead guilty in all four murders to avoid a potential death sentence.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 13 Aug. 2023
• Do not treat it as a death sentence—take it as an opportunity to bring your brand’s mission and story back to life.
  — Steve Ohanians, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• Gaskin’s attorneys last week filed a motion for a stay of the execution and raised challenges to his death sentence.
  — Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2023
• Then, as now, tribal elders handed down a death sentence to those visible in the footage, leading to the deaths of at least eight people.
  — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024