How to Use sentence in a Sentence

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• He is serving a 10-year sentence for armed robbery.
• The exact length of the sentence was to be left to Boynton.
  — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
• The sentence is the first handed down in over a decade for such a charge.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 26 May 2023
• 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
• With a 132-year sentence, he was doomed to die in prison.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
• The motion asked that the sentence be stayed, or put on hold.
  — NBC News, 16 Mar. 2022
• Dassey is now 28 and has served 12 years of a life sentence in prison.
  — NBC News, 25 June 2018
• Glossier and willpower rarely fall in the same sentence.
  — Lindsay Schallon, Glamour, 6 Mar. 2018
• Perez pleaded guilty to the drug charge and served half of a 15-year prison sentence.
  — Manya Brachear Pashman, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Forgive me for putting their names in the same sentence.
  — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Nov. 2020
• 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
• Each word of those rules can be pushed around to form new sentences.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• The maximum sentence for the charge is one year in prison.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2023
• What is your cryptic one-sentence tease for the third episode?
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• Then comes the final sentence, like the twist in a horror movie.
  — Garry Kasparov, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2021
• Gutierrez-Ruiz tried not to let his guard down for the rest of his sentence.
  — Chris Outcalt, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2017
• Each charge carries a sentence of one to 15 years in prison.
  — Amy Beth Hanson, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
• Each woman faced a sentence of up to 110 years in prison.
  — Michelle Mehrtens, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2022
• The charges against both men could result in a life sentence or the death penalty.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2022
• 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
• Because there’s plenty for the two to talk about in that sentence alone.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2021
• If found guilty, the 51-year-old will face a life sentence under state law.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022
• The rest of his sentence — 11 months and 27 days — were suspended.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Not just one lame assertion but two, and in the same sentence.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2020
• Reached by phone on Friday, the judge in the case, Ngo Ha Nam, declined to comment on the sentence.
  — Chau Doan, New York Times, 26 May 2023
• Here’s the bizarre state of present-day college football in one sentence.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 10 Aug. 2022
• What is a reader supposed to take away from a sentence like that?
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 18 Mar. 2020
• Yes, that sentence kinda reads like a weird mad libs, but keep up!
  — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 5 July 2019

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• The defendant was sentenced and fined.
• He was sentenced to 30 months in prison at the age of 79.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023
• Texas then used the footage to sentence my client, Gabriel Hall, to death.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 28 Dec. 2022
• Ziegler faces up to a year in jail when he is sentenced on Jan. 4.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• Williamson faces up to 30 years in prison when he's sentenced Nov. 5.
  — CBS News, 6 Aug. 2019
• Bridges faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced on Nov. 2.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 15 June 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 42 years in state prison and has served less than half of that.
  — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• Now, five of the group have been sentenced to time behind bars.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 16 May 2023
• The day after his speech in court, he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
  — Clare Sebastian, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
• Bryan Patrick Miller was sentenced to death in June 2023.
  — Paul Larosa, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
• In total, he was sentenced to up to 300 years in prison.
  — Jessica Taylor Price, Teen Vogue, 16 Aug. 2018
• Clooney and his wife are scheduled to be sentenced Sept 14.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 15 May 2023
• Allen is now the third woman to be sentenced to death in Arizona.
  — Robert Newhouse, Teen Vogue, 8 Aug. 2017
• He was assessed a $10 fee and sentenced to time served.
  — Jay Root and Shannon Najmabadi, star-telegram, 10 July 2018
• Those guidelines mean a judge could sentence him to a longer prison term.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2022
• The church likened today’s police to those who sentenced Christ to death.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, latimes.com, 30 May 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
• Prosecutors asked the judge to sentence her to nine-and-a-half years in prison.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 4 Aug. 2022
• This month he was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined more than $9 million.
  — Abdul Salam, USA TODAY, 9 July 2018
• On May 9, Judge Steven Stone sentenced the driver to 30 days in jail.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2023
• He is set to be sentenced by Judge Lewis Kaplan on March 28th of next year and faces decades in prison.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 2 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Chapman pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to 20-years-to-life in prison.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
• After he was caught, he was sentenced to eight years in prison.
  — Amanda Marrazzo, McHenry County, 11 June 2018
• In September, a judge would sentence him to six years in prison.
  — Jessica Contrera, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Sep. 2022
• Prosecutors have asked the judge to sentence him to life in prison.
  — Nicole Hong, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
• He was sentenced to 27 years in prison for those crimes, ABC News reports.
  — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
• She will be sentenced at another time and faces up to life in prison.
  — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023

Last Updated: 29 Apr 2024