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sen•tence

1. a grammatical unit of one or more words, bearing minimal syntactic relation to the words that precede or follow it, often preceded and followed in speech by pauses, having one of a small number of characteristic intonation patterns, and typically expressing an independent statement, question, request, command, etc., as Summer is here. or Who is it? or Stop!
1. an authoritative decision; a judicial judgment or decree, esp. the judicial determination of the punishment to be inflicted on a convicted criminal.
2. the punishment itself.
3. a period.
4. a saying, apothegm, or maxim.
5. an opinion given on a particular question.

1. to pronounce sentence upon; condemn to punishment.