(law) A sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life.

plural of incomplete sentence

(grammar) A group of words that appear to convey only part of a complete thought, lacking some component which is grammatically necessary to complete the thought.

(grammar) A sentence that contains one independent clause and no dependent clause.

plural of simple sentence

plural of death sentence

(rhetoric) A sentence whose main clause appears at its end.

Alternative spelling of garden path sentence

(linguistics) A sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly when first read, due to ambiguity of a word or words.

(archaic) second-person singular simple past form of send