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:

    The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
    And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
    Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

    Every writer is necessarily a critic—that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on.... The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg—nine-tenths of him is under water.
    Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)