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
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?
George Carlin
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
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx
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
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison
Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
Lewis Carroll
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Alexander Pope
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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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