Sentence examples for gave a sentence from inspiring English sources

A federal judge in Seattle gave a sentence of 30 years to a man who was the ringleader of one of the state's largest investment frauds.

It caused me to understand more fully how sentences were either dead or alive, that there was something in rhythm, even the simplest rhythm, that gave a sentence force.

In 1999, a federal judge in the Southern District of Illinois did something that would trouble him for years: He gave a sentence of life without the possibility of parole to a young drug dealer who had never been convicted of a violent crime.

"Lei Zhengfu was given a sentence of 13 years.

He was given a sentence of life plus eight years.

Meanwhile, only a fifth of cases were given a sentence.

A speaker can give a sentence, and the person can respond.

They can help give a sentence depth, detail and movement, but they can also create clutter.

Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

Of those, 49 were given a sentence of less than three months; one person was given a sentence of somewhere between three and six months.

Sollecito was given a sentence of 25 years in the original trial.