How to Use sentence in a Sentence
- He is serving a 10-year sentence for armed robbery.
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That sentence was too much for me.
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Ben Lerner,
New Yorker,
21 June 2026
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That sentence is not a metaphor.
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Rachel O'Leary Carmona,
Rolling Stone,
22 Mar. 2026
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Sum up your show’s pitch in one sentence.
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Michael Schneider,
Variety,
1 June 2026
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Sum up your show’s pitch in one sentence.
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Michael Schneider,
Variety,
8 June 2026
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Sum up your show’s pitch in one sentence.
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Michael Schneider,
Variety,
22 June 2026
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Sum up your show’s pitch in one sentence.
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Michael Schneider,
Variety,
18 May 2026
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None of these sentences is easy to say out loud.
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Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
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Well, that could get you a jail sentence.
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Alex Wigglesworth,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Feb. 2026
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Sum up your show’s pitch in one sentence.
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Michael Schneider,
Variety,
27 Apr. 2026
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Sum up your show’s pitch in one sentence.
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Michael Schneider,
Variety,
4 May 2026
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Sum up your show’s pitch in one sentence.
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Michael Schneider,
Variety,
12 June 2026
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Read that sentence aloud and try not to laugh.
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Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2026
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The sentences will be served back-to-back.
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Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
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Each day worked will count as a day off their sentence.
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Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
4 May 2026
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There’s a sense of strength that that sentence gives.
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Kristine Kwak,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2026
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Even to my teen-age self, this was a weird sentence.
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Akhil Sharma,
New Yorker,
28 Jan. 2026
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If that sentence doesn’t seem odd to you, read it again.
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Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
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Each word of those rules can be pushed around to form new sentences.
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Nick Romano,
EW.com,
9 Dec. 2019
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That was the Knicks in one sentence.
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C.j. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
14 June 2026
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That is a small sentence with a long shadow.
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Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2026
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Jones said of the 16-year sentence.
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Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
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The rest of her sentence was for other charges.
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Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
4 Mar. 2026
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That has been the season in one sentence.
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Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2026
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That sentence is loaded in more ways than one.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 Jan. 2026
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Or should there be a question mark at the end of that sentence?
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Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
25 May 2026
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Or worse, to turn it into a sort of prison sentence.
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James Wood,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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The motion asked that the sentence be stayed, or put on hold.
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NBC News,
16 Mar. 2022
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Their sentences will likely be no more than five years each.
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Logan Smith,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
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What is your cryptic one-sentence tease for the third episode?
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Dan Snierson,
EW.com,
28 Oct. 2020
- The defendant was sentenced and fined.
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He was sentenced to life in prison.
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Joe Walsh,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
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Hall was sentenced to life in prison.
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Audrey Abrahams,
NBC news,
1 Feb. 2026
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Waller was sentenced to life in prison.
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Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC news,
30 Oct. 2025
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He was sentenced to life in prison.
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Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
11 Jan. 2026
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He was sentenced to life in prison.
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Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
29 June 2026
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He was sentenced to life in prison.
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S.e. Jenkins,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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He was sentenced to life in prison.
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Sara Dorn,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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She was sentenced to life in prison.
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Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
26 Sep. 2025
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He was sentenced to six years in prison.
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Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
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He was sentenced late last year.
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ABC News,
1 May 2026
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He was sentenced to nine years in prison.
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Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Muller was sentenced to four life terms.
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Lauren Clark,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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She was sentenced to eight months in prison.
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Evan Mealins,
Nashville Tennessean,
7 Nov. 2025
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Wuornos was sentenced to death for her crimes.
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Allison Degrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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He was sentenced to five years in prison last year.
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Curt Devine,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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He was sentenced to three years in prison, records show.
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Sam Charles,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2026
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He was sentenced to eight years and eight months in prison.
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Joseph Ataman,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2026
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The names of those sentenced to death were called once a week.
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Robin Yassin-Kassab,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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Adame was sentenced to four years and four months in prison.
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Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Nov. 2025
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He was sentenced to 4 days in jail.
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Jack Lowenstein,
CBS News,
14 Feb. 2026
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With that, Day is sentenced to death.
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Rafael Motamayor,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
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He was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
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Omar G. Encarnación,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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He was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
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Rafia Zakaria,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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Jones was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
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Peter Van Sant,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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She was sentenced to 32 years to life.
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Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2026
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He was sentenced to 18 months in jail.
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Jill Lawless,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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He was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
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Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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He was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
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Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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Philipp Jenne,
Chicago Tribune,
28 May 2026
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