0 past simple and past participle of sentence
1 to decide and say officially what a punishment will be:
He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Her sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.
As it was her first conviction for stealing, she was given a less severe sentence.
In some countries, drug-smuggling still carries the death sentence.
The judge made an example of him and gave him the maximum possible sentence.
At the end of the war he went into hiding, but was arrested in 1948, tried and sentenced to death.
Three senior medical officials were convicted of criminal negligence and fraud and were sentenced to prison.
The accused was found guilty and sentenced to death.
