noun

• (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
  "The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second."
• (obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
  "Men (saith an ancient Greek sentence) are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not by things themselves."
• (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using e.g. the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
  "Near-synonym: clause"
• (logic) A formula with no free variables.

verb

• (transitive) To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.
  "The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine."
• (especially law or poetic) To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.
  "“We are empowered to deliver thee to prison; yea, the law commands us to sentence death upon the abettors of this mischief.[…]""
• (obsolete) To utter sententiously.
  "Let me heare one wise man sentence it, rather then twenty Fooles, garrulous in their lengthened tattle."