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  • 91sentence n — 1) If there s one person you don t want to interrupt in the middle of a sentence it s a judge. 2) Old judges never die, they just slur their sentences. 3)To some marriage is a word ... to others a sentence …

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  • 92sentence — 1. noun the judge shortened his sentence to nine months Syn: prison term, prison sentence; punishment; informal time, stretch, stint 2. verb they were sentenced to death Syn: pass judgment on, punish, convict; condemn, doom …

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  • 93sentence — n 1.Law.a. condemnation, decree, ruling, judgment, Sl. rap.b. punishment, prison term, term, Sl. time, Sl. stint, Sl. stretch, Sl. stretch up the river, Sl. stretch in the can, Sl. vacation. v 2. pass judgment, pronounce sentence, pass sentence… …

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  • 94sentence — 1. noun 1) the judge delivered his sentence Syn: judgement, ruling, decision, verdict 2) a long sentence Syn: punishment, prison term; informal time, stretch 2. verb they were sentenced to death …

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  • 95sentence fragment — sen′tence frag ment n. gram. a phrase or clause written as a sentence but lacking an element, as a subject or verb, that would enable it to function as an independent sentence in normative written English …

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  • 96sentence sense — noun : the ability to recognize a group of words that forms a written complete sentence as distinguished from a minor sentence or adjacent sentences …

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  • 97sentence fragment — noun Date: 1947 a word, phrase, or clause that usually has in speech the intonation of a sentence but lacks the grammatical structure usually found in the sentences of formal and especially written composition …

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  • 98sentence stress — noun Date: 1884 the manner in which stresses are distributed on the syllables of words assembled into sentences called also sentence accent …

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  • 99sentence accent — noun see sentence stress …

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  • 100Sentence arbitrale de Torrellas — Division administrative du Royaume de Valence suite à la sentence arbitrale de Torrellas et au traité d Elche Le Traité de Torrellas est un accord signé dans cette cité de la région de Saragosse après la conquête du Royaume de Murcie, alors aux… …

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