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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sentence.

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Examples

  • Weinstein sentenced Mejia to 11 years and five months in prison, giving him the 10-year maximum on the theft charges, plus 17 months for a probation violation in another case.

    Man sentenced for posing as ICE agent, scamming immigrants Post 2010

  • John B. Holmes, 42, showed no emotion when Judge Michael Rankin sentenced him to prison in connection with the fatal shooting of Ronald Jones Jr. in one of the District's earliest road-rage cases.

    Man sentenced in road-rage slaying Keith L. Alexander 2010

  • Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Paul Weinstein sentenced Mejia to 11 years and five months in prison -- giving him the 10-year cap on the theft charges plus 17 months for a probation violation in another case.

    Fake fed agent gets 11 years Washington Post editors 2010

  • Judge Aaron Goodstein sentenced Richardson to 30 hours community service, one-year probation and a $10 fine.

    William James Richardson 2010

  • However, I don't think that the sentenced is wrong.

    Global Voices in English » Japan: Filipino girl sees her parents deported 2009

  • Weinstein sentenced Mejia to 11 years and five months in prison, giving him the 10-year maximum on the theft charges, plus 17 months for a probation violation in another case.

    Man sentenced for posing as ICE agent, scamming immigrants Post 2010

  • It's grim days indeed for the dragon Temeraire -- removed from military service, his captain sentenced to death for treason and the dastardly Napoleon pushing on toward London.

    May 2008 2008

  • All were in prisons under the same conditions as other long-term sentenced prisoners.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Last week a number of Tibetans were once again sentenced to prison terms of up to nineteen years at a mass show trial, possibly intended to frighten the population before today's event.

    The 14th Dalai Lama - Acceptance Speech 1989

  • I mention the fact that Neil Maconolgue was apprehended a few months ago by special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Atlantic City, New Jersey, and was again sentenced to the penitentiary, and when I recently left Washington, no report to the contrary having been received, he is likely in that penal institution today.

    A Modern Crusade Against Crime 1939

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