sentence

virke, lause

langettaa tuomio, tuomita

rangaistus puhekieltä Sense; meaning; significance.
Milton

The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence.

My sentence is for open war.

By them Luther's works we may pass sentence upon his doctrines.

The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.

The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous cattle rustler.

The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.

Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves.

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The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.

The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.

Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.

The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.