(grammar) A function word or expression that substitutes for a whole sentence whose content is recoverable from the context.

(authorship) A sentence at the beginning of a paragraph indicating the general matter to be discussed later in that paragraph.

(law) A decree that someone be put to death as a punishment for a crime; a sentence of execution. / (figuratively) Anything that spells death.

(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.