Sentence

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:

    “In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “... the compensation for a death sentence is knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)