Sentence examples for highest sentence from inspiring English sources
The phrase "highest sentence" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to the harshest punishment that can be given to someone who has committed an offense or crime. For example, "The judge gave the defendant the highest sentence for the crime of fraud."
Mr. Weinig received the highest sentence allowed: 11 years, 3 months.
But it was the charge of negligent homicide that carried the highest sentence.
ACCURACY -- The governor's office says the highest sentence mandated by the laws is 15 years to life for class A-1 felony convictions, but judges can give sentences up to 25 years to life.
The highest sentence among them was 25 years; the lowest was two and a half years.
The past year had the highest sentences ever given for this type of crime, including the 11-year prison term for Mr. Rajaratnam.
They chose not to use violence and did not take weapons, knowing that would attract a much higher sentence.
The draft guideline set out an ascending range of quantities of drug, each of which carried a higher sentence.
If an individual had committed this many violations, a sentencing judge would probably "throw the book" at the person by imposing a higher sentence for any subsequent violations.
The guidelines called for a sentence of two to two-and-a-half years, but Judge Chin, acknowledging that there was "a lot of emotion involved," went for a higher sentence, imposing four years.
But the judge, Kimba M. Wood, told Mr. Todaro before she sentenced him that only his son's needs and his own poor health kept her from giving him a "much, much higher" sentence.
The oddly poignant effect brought to my mind J. Alfred Prufrock's self-assessment: "not Prince Hamlet" but "an attendant lord... Deferential, glad to be of use, / Politic, cautious, and meticulous; / Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse".
