Sentence or sentencing may refer to:
- Sentence (linguistics), a grammatical unit of language
- Sentence (mathematical logic), a formula with no free variables
- Sentence (music), a particular type of musical phrase
- Sentence (law), a penalty applied to a person or entity found guilty of a criminal act
- "Sentencing" (The Wire), the thirteenth episode of The Wire
- Sentences, a 12-century book of theology by Peter Lombard
- Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm, an autobiographical graphic novel by the MF Grimm, published by Vertigo in 2007
Famous quotes containing the word sentence:
“When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs ... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb’s bleat.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“New York state sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse. And they got no windows in the workhouse. You know, in the old days they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker.”
—John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)
“When one drinks with a friend, a thousand cups are not enough, but when there is no meeting of minds, half a sentence can be too much.”
—Chinese proverb.