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Sentence

Sense; meaning; significance.

An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.

A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.

In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.

A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.

A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.

To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

To decree or announce as a sentence.

To utter sententiously.

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Sentence Quotations

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
Barack Obama

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?
George Carlin

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
Ayn Rand

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
Steve Martin

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
Wilson Mizner

Sentence Translations

sentence in Afrikaans is sin
sentence in Dutch is frase, zin, volzin
sentence in Finnish is lause
sentence in Hungarian is mondat
sentence in Italian is punizione, condannare, frase
sentence in Spanish is punicion, frase, condenar

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