English example sentences with "sentence"

The convicted drug dealer was willing to comply with the authorities to have his death sentence reduced to a life sentence.
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All you have to do is to learn this sentence by heart.
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Compare your sentence with the one on the blackboard.
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Some years ago, learning that one had tuberculosis amounted to hearing a sentence of death.
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In English, the usual sentence structure is Subject - Verb - Object/Complement.
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If you come upon a new word in a sentence, what will you do with it?
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Please translate this sentence into Japanese.
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The sentence is not grammatically accurate.
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I can't get at the exact meaning of the sentence.
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The meaning of this sentence is obscure.
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The sentence is free from grammatical mistakes.
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You should omit this word from the sentence.
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I will appeal against the sentence.
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The same sentence could have the force of a command.
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The man was given a life sentence.
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The convict was pardoned after serving his sentence.
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Make a sentence with each of these words.
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This sees English as a system obeying miles of grammar and sentence structure which have to be learned in detail and applied rigorously.
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Judging from these comments, it would seem that this sentence should be corrected.
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Put this sentence into English.
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Every sentence in this book is important.
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It took me two hours to memorize this sentence.
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You should rewrite this sentence.
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This sentence states exactly how the writer feels.
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This sentence doesn't make sense.
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Let's learn this sentence by heart.
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This sentence is grammatically correct.
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You should rewrite this sentence. It doesn't make sense.
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The meaning of this sentence is ambiguous.
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Make this sentence a little shorter.
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This sentence may be interpreted another way.
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Will you please explain the meaning of this sentence to me?
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You can't understand this sentence, can you?
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What does the word "get" mean in this sentence?
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Please explain this sentence to me.
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Mr Wilson made us repeat the sentence several times.
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The second sentence was just as long.
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Strictly speaking, this sentence is not grammatical.
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Strictly speaking, this sentence is grammatically incorrect.
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The judge pronounced him "guilty", and now he must face the music of a sentence in prison.

The judge pardoned the prisoner a year of his sentence.

The judge made no bones about his disgust with the accused's actions and handed down the severest sentence possible.

I cannot make out the meaning of this sentence.

Repeat each sentence after me.

I can't make out the meaning of this sentence.

The teacher interpreted the sentence for us.

The teacher made me repeat the sentence.

The district attorney wasn't content with a two-year sentence.

The corrected sentence was just what he wanted to say.

He couldn't understand the sentence.

His son is serving his sentence.

He was let out after serving just two years of his four-year prison sentence.

He wrote a sentence on the paper, but I didn't understand the sentence.

She complained about the sentence.

The defendant appealed against the sentence without hesitation.

A sentence normally has a subject and a verb.

The first word of every sentence should be capitalized.

A capital letter is used at the beginning of a sentence.

You must begin a sentence with a capital letter.

The "subject" is the person or object to carry out the action in the sentence. Transformed to Japanese it would be the part that end in "wa" or "ga".

The "predicate" is that part that shows the action in the sentence. In Japanese it would be the part that ends in "da", "suru", etc.

When writing a sentence, generally you start with a capital letter and finish with a period (.), an exclamation mark (!), or a question mark (?).

This sentence is in the present perfect. 'have' is not a verb, but an auxiliary verb.

The example is a past progressive tense sentence. How was everybody taught when they were learning about progressive tense?

In a progressive tense sentence it becomes the -ing form verb, that is the present participle.

The choice of example sentence wasn't wise.

Before adding a new sentence, please check that your sentence brings new vocabulary by searching the keywords.

The future progressive tense is used when expressing events and action in progress at some future point, however the example sentence cannot be understood in that way.

The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.

I am adding an example sentence.

What a sentence!

This is a sentence.

I'm sending you this sentence when you least expect it.

There's no such thing as a perfect sentence. Just as there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Example sentence no. 354618 created a lot of confusion on the Tatoeba website.

This sentence isn't written clearly.

When a sentence is not owned by anyone, like this one, you can correct it yourself.

FSI officer: "Sir, there is a website where ANYONE can add a sentence in a foreign language!". FSI president: "What?! Bomb them!".

"Honey, quick, quick. There's this website called Tatoeba that's auctioning its sentence collection for a cent each! They've even got special offers like buy 100 sentences and get 1 free!" "Ah great! now people collect sentences as a hobby?! What's the world coming to!"

So you don't understand this sentence?

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I was your inspiration for this sentence, and you know it.

An inspired sentence?

M insults D - the Tatoeba database is one sentence better. D insults M - the Tatoeba database is one sentence better. D and M are even, and everyone else wins.

Tatoeba: Ever heard of sentence fights? Yeah, that's what we do for fun.

Tatoeba: Where pillow fights can't even measure up to sentence fights.

In Soviet Russia, sentence writes you!

If you feel there are several possible translations, note that for the same sentence, you can add several translations in the same language.

Sentence Number 888,888 will bring its owner years upon years of luck.

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There is no other way to understand the sentence.

Please submit a sentence to be translated into other languages.

I've added an alternative sentence and I've tagged it as 'old fashioned'. What more do you want, blood?

Please translate sentence by sentence in Tatoeba.

Important! You are about to add a translation to the sentence above.

A sentence can state something false while at the same time be grammatically correct.

I'm not a sentence. I should be deleted from Tatoeba.

Please unlink this sentence from English.

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Every Tatoeba sentence should be commented and its translation discussed, unless it's completely obvious.