Definition for Sentence:

• ( Archaic) one\'s opinion for or against some course or conclusion( my s. is for war); ( archaic) pithy saying, briefly expressed thought, maxim, proverb, so( in common use) sententious a., sententiously adv., sententiousness n.; verdict( rare), ( declaration of) punishment allotted to person condemned in criminal trial( also transf.); ( Gram.) set of words complete in itself, containing subject& predicate( either, or part of either or both, somet. omitted by ellipsis), & conveying a statement, question, or command( e. g. I go, will you go?, go= go thou or you, what? = what did you say?, hearts trumps= hearts are trumps; simple s., with single subject& predicate; compound s., with more than one of either or both; complex s., with subordinate clause or clauses), so sentential a. ( rare); ( loosely in Gram.; usu. subordinate s.) subordinate clause; small amount of speech, usu. that between two full stops often including several grammatical sentences( e. g. I went& he came). ( Vb) state s. of( condemned criminal, or transf.), declare condemned to. [ old French]

Synonyms for Sentence:

• n.

  •
  • article,
  • adjunct,
  • case,
  • accusative,
  • dictum,
  • antecedent,
  • order,
  • collocate,
  • edict,
  • allomorph,
  • decree,
  • cleft sentence,
  • allophone.
  •
  • administer,
  • take the law into your own hands,
  • make an example of someone,
  • teach someone a lesson,
  • mete out,
  • deal out,
  • hand down,
  • law.
  •
  • correctional,
  • extraordinary rendition,
  • life sentence,
  • hard labor,
  • life imprisonment,
  • internment,
  • prison,
  • life.
  •communication (noun)
  • sentence.
  •condemnation (noun)
  • damning,
  • conviction,
  • death sentence,
  • death penalty.
  •decision (noun)
  • de termination,
  • out-come,
  • de-termination,
  • the nods,
  • pre arrangement,
  • re-solutions,
  • re-solution,
  • re-conciliation,
  • pre-arrangements,
  • pre-arrangement,
  • under-standings,
  • pre arrangements,
  • out come,
  • the calls,
  • de terminations,
  • re solutions,
  • under standings,
  • re conciliation,
  • re conciliations,
  • under-standing,
  • de-terminations,
  • under standing,
  • adjudicatures,
  • out-comes,
  • out comes,
  • re-conciliations.
  •doom (noun)
  • pre-destinations,
  • de-cree,
  • lap gods,
  • pre destination,
  • de cree,
  • pre-determinations,
  • lap god,
  • way the cookie crumble,
  • way cookie crumble,
  • pre determination,
  • way ball bounce,
  • fore-ordinations,
  • fore ordination,
  • lap of god,
  • lap of the god,
  • lap the god,
  • de-crees,
  • pre-destination,
  • fore ordinations,
  • pre determinations,
  • fixed futures,
  • lap the gods,
  • handwriting wall,
  • foreordinations,
  • way ball bounces,
  • way the ball bounce,
  • pre destinations,
  • predeterminations,
  • pre-determination,
  • lap of gods,
  • de crees.
  •finding (noun)
  • re commendations,
  • re commendation,
  • re-commendations,
  • re-commendation.
  •judgement (noun)
  • consideration,
  • adjudication,
  • ruling,
  • pronouncement,
  • assessment,
  • arbitration,
  • mediation,
  • resolution,
  • appraisal,
  • determination.
  •judgment (noun)
  • ex-aminations,
  • be lief,
  • re searches,
  • weigh ins,
  • close studies,
  • in quests,
  • ex aminations,
  • be-lief,
  • weighins,
  • in quest,
  • re gards,
  • in-quests,
  • re search,
  • weigh-ins,
  • assayings,
  • re-gard,
  • weighin,
  • ex amination,
  • in-quest.
  •judgment of conviction (noun)
  • judgment of conviction.
  •justice (noun)
  • legalization,
  • legalizations,
  • equity,
  • fair treatment,
  • square deal,
  • legitimacy,
  • Constitutionality,
  • legal process,
  • judicatory,
  • penalty,
  • justness,
  • due process,
  • judicature,
  • judicatures,
  • fair play,
  • reasonableness.
  •passage (noun)
  • transition,
  • paragraph,
  • paragraphs,
  • verse.
  •phrase (noun)
  • expression,
  • slogan,
  • idiom,
  • locution,
  • figure of speech,
  • mannerism,
  • phraseology,
  • epigram,
  • cliche,
  • phrase,
  • metaphor,
  • terminology,
  • motto,
  • Verbalism,
  • adage,
  • maxim,
  • catchphrase,
  • proverb,
  • clause,
  • euphemism.
  •prison term (noun)
  • prison term.
  •punishing decree (noun)
  • hitch,
  • considered opinion,
  • censure,
  • trick,
  • sleep,
  • jolt,
  • stretch,
  • vacation,
  • clock,
  • knock,
  • getup,
  • book,
  • fall,
  • term,
  • time,
  • punishment.
  •punishment (noun)
  • incarceration,
  • crucifixion,
  • retribution,
  • agony,
  • forfeiture,
  • correction,
  • imprisonment,
  • confinement,
  • payment,
  • revenge,
  • castigation,
  • persecution,
  • reprisal,
  • chastisement,
  • affliction,
  • execution,
  • price.
  •sanction (noun)
  • in junction,
  • in junctions,
  • in-junctions,
  • coercive measures,
  • in-junction.
  •structure (noun)
  • grammatical construction.
  •text (noun)
  • main bodies,
  • motifies.
  •utterance (noun)
  • dis course,
  • dis-course,
  • de-livery,
  • de-liveries,
  • re-citations,
  • re citation,
  • de livery,
  • re-citation,
  • re citations,
  • re marks,
  • re-marks,
  • re mark,
  • de liveries,
  • dis-courses,
  • dis courses.
  •verdict (noun)
  • arbitraments.

• v.

  •condemn (verb)
  • find guilty,
  • pass sentence,
  • execrate.
  •convict (verb)
  • putting the screws to,
  • pronouncing guilty,
  • throws book at,
  • declared guilty,
  • puts the screws to,
  • pronounces guilty,
  • putting screws to,
  • pronounced guilty,
  • threw book at,
  • throws the book at,
  • declares guilty,
  • threw the book at,
  • throwing the book at,
  • declaring guilty,
  • bring justice,
  • puts screws to,
  • throwing book at.
  •damn (verb)
  • inveigling against,
  • complained of,
  • ex communicates,
  • fulminated against,
  • dratting,
  • objecting to,
  • ex communicated,
  • thunders against,
  • thundered against,
  • fulminating against,
  • re vile,
  • crying down,
  • cried down,
  • ex communicating,
  • ex-communicated,
  • ex-communicates,
  • complaining of,
  • inveigles against,
  • cries down,
  • inveigled against,
  • complains of,
  • ex-communicating,
  • ex communicate,
  • drats,
  • re-vile,
  • thundering against,
  • fulminates against,
  • objects to,
  • objected to,
  • ex-communicate,
  • casts out.
  •decide punishment (verb)
  • penalize,
  • impound,
  • send to prison,
  • adjudicate,
  • incarcerate,
  • devote,
  • ordain,
  • denounce,
  • put away,
  • take the fall,
  • blame,
  • rule,
  • pass judgment,
  • confine,
  • adjudge,
  • imprison,
  • settle.
  •imprison (verb)
  • fence,
  • collar,
  • bridle,
  • harness,
  • handcuff,
  • shackle,
  • cage,
  • fetter,
  • straight jacket,
  • manacle,
  • tether.
  •jail (verb)
  • puts ice,
  • de tain,
  • put ice,
  • threw away the keys,
  • throwing in dungeon,
  • throws away the keys,
  • threw dungeon,
  • takes away,
  • throws away keys,
  • bastilling,
  • throws dungeon,
  • threw away keys,
  • throws in dungeon,
  • bastilled,
  • puts on ice,
  • putting ice,
  • de-tains,
  • throwing away the keys,
  • throw dungeon,
  • puts behind bars,
  • throwing away keys,
  • throwing dungeon,
  • putting behind bars,
  • de tains,
  • throw away keys,
  • threw in dungeon,
  • putting on ice,
  • de-tain.
  •judge (verb)
  • consider,
  • assess,
  • appraise,
  • find,
  • determine,
  • pronounce,
  • arbitrate,
  • decide,
  • resolve,
  • mediate,
  • referee.
  •proscribe (verb)
  • inter dict,
  • de-ported,
  • pro scribing,
  • inter-dict,
  • out lawing,
  • out lawed,
  • pro-scribing,
  • ex patriates,
  • pro scribes,
  • ex-patriate,
  • out-lawed,
  • pro scribe,
  • ex patriating,
  • pro scribed,
  • ex-patriates,
  • ex-patriating,
  • ex-patriated,
  • de ported,
  • pro-scribed,
  • de-porting,
  • pro-scribe,
  • pro-scribes,
  • ex patriate,
  • ex patriated,
  • de porting.
  •punish (verb)
  • chasten,
  • persecute,
  • correct,
  • distress,
  • burden,
  • afflict,
  • avenge,
  • castigate,
  • chastise,
  • discipline,
  • lambaste,
  • agonize,
  • execute,
  • try,
  • reprise,
  • anguish,
  • Keelhaul,
  • pillory,
  • crucify,
  • torture,
  • fine.
  •transport (verb)
  • ex pulse,
  • ex-pulsed,
  • dis placed,
  • dis place,
  • ex pulsing,
  • re-legate,
  • trans ported,
  • ex pulsed,
  • expulsing,
  • re legate,
  • dis placing,
  • trans porting,
  • dis-placed,
  • re legates,
  • expulsed,
  • dis-places,
  • trans-porting,
  • expulses,
  • trans-ported,
  • dis places,
  • dis-place,
  • ex-pulse,
  • ex-pulses,
  • ex-pulsing,
  • dis-placing,
  • ex pulses,
  • re-legates.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • quotation.
  •
  • transformation.
  •condemn
  • found guilty,
  • Dooming,
  • sentences,
  • sent up,
  • pin it on,
  • sending up the river,
  • be little,
  • hang something on,
  • point finger at,
  • Denunciate,
  • sends up,
  • send up the river,
  • thumbs down on,
  • call down,
  • finding guilty,
  • send up,
  • put down,
  • let have it,
  • lay at door,
  • reprobates,
  • lay at one's door,
  • pass sentence on,
  • finds guilty,
  • Reprobated,
  • calling down,
  • blow whistle on,
  • find fault with,
  • Reprobating.
  •judge
  • size up,
  • passed sentence,
  • judges,
  • give a hearing,
  • sit,
  • sat,
  • Umpiring,
  • Umpired,
  • passes sentence,
  • passing sentence,
  • Valuing,
  • pronounce sentence.
  •punish
  • Disciplining,
  • crack down on,
  • knock about,
  • disciplined,
  • slap wrist,
  • cracking down on,
  • defrock,
  • rap knuckles,
  • defrocking,
  • give the works,
  • teach a lesson,
  • give a going over,
  • attend to,
  • attended to,
  • defrocked.
  •syntax
  • grammar.

Paraphrases for Sentence:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    Sentencing.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Sentencing.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    gets.
  • Noun, plural
    obligations.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    indictment, offence, sense, word, remark, sorrow, pain, subparagraph, shame, grief, detention.
  • Verb, past tense
    hung, Hanged, rejected.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    serving, Bothering, threatening, declining, Cultivating, trying, Having, going, Doing.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    criminalizes, denounces, penalizes, deplores.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    Sentenced, Penalties, punishment, Punishments, phrase, phrases, judgements, condemnation, imprisonment, Judgments.
  • Noun, plural
    judgements.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Sentenced, punishment, imposition, clause, incarceration, phrase, adjudication, prayer, trial, expression, condemnation, confinement, wording, pity, imprisonment, knell, prosecution.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    struggling.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    convicts.

Antonyms for Sentence:

• n.

  • punishing decree
    charge, encouragement, reward, accusation, indecision.
  • Other antonyms:
    applaud, justify, approve, praise, absolve, acquit.

• v.

  • decide punishment
    commend, exonerate, liberate, free, accuse, release, let go, pardon, blame.

Sentence Sentence Examples:

• Amy, meanwhile, had come in and heard this last sentence.

• I hope she will always - always -" The sentence was hard to finish.

Homophones for Sentence:

• scantiness, Saint Dominic, sandiness, ski conditions, sundanese, santims, smoothness, sentiency, Six Nations, Saint Denis, snootiness, shantung, sayan mountains, Saint Athanasius, scantness, sending, Sam Adams, squinting, sounding, Santo Domingo, soundness, sun dance, send a message, saint nick, something, smuttiness, sentience, Saint Thomas.

Hypernym for Sentence:

• n.

  • communication
    declaratory sentence, declarative sentence, complex sentence, interrogative sentence, interrogative, run-on sentence, compound sentence, interrogation, simple sentence, question, topic sentence.

• v.

  • communication
    foredoom, reprobate.

Hyponym for Sentence:

• n.

  • communication
    string of words, word string, linguistic string.

• v.

  • communication
    declare.

Meronym for Sentence:

• n.

  • communication
    constituent, grammatical constituent, clause.