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Discover LudwigThe phrase "serve sentence" is correct and usable in written English when referring to the completion of a punishment or incarceration for a crime.
Example: The convicted criminal will serve a five-year sentence in prison for his actions.
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12.01pm: Time for a summary: The latest released cables show that US spurned British attempts to allow the computer hacker Gary McKinnon to serve sentence in UK.
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Only felony offenders who had failed at other programs would serve sentences at secure state facilities.
Four out of 10 prisoners serve sentences of six months or less.
Many of them went in prison to serve sentences of ten, fifteen, twenty years.
Both are in Corcoran State Prison, serving sentences for murder.
Most are in for murder, serving sentences measured in decades.
The greatest involvement that most local authorities have with offenders serving sentences would usually be with people serving community sentences".
Meanwhile, at Angola, Wallace and Woodfox were serving sentences for unconnected robberies.
They each served sentences of between 10 and 12 months before being released from prison.
Many of the prisoners here are serving sentences of less than a year for parole violations.
Two inmates are serving sentences of 10 and 12 years for the killing.
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