6 sentences with “sentences”

After 37 years of marriage, a man and a woman knew each other so well that they completed each other's sentences.

This new script introduced the division between upper and lower case letters and the practice of beginning sentences with the capital letters we use to this day.

The lieutenant colonel in charge of the prison informed us that 15 prisoners were serving sentences there for treason, for having attempted to escape from the country, although not a single one of them was in the cells that day.

It should also be noted that not everything in Soviet society was, in reality, a failure. After the "thaw" in the early 1950s, hardly anyone was executed for simply disagreeing with the state, and prison sentences were much shorter.

Court officials sympathetic to his politics gave Hitler and his followers ridiculously short sentences in minimum security prisons, a sentence Hitler spent dictating his autobiography, Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), to Nazi party secretary Rudolf Hess.

We were aware that convicts released from Perm 35 prison are often haunted by the memory of the dungeons. Repeated sentences purged there often amounted to spending more than a year in the cold and gloom, with rations of bread and watered-down cereal every third day, and nothing in between.