6 sentences with 'sentences'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sentences and other words derived from it.
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « After 37 years of marriage, a man and a woman knew each other so well that they completed each other's sentences. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »