Sentence(s) or The Sentence may refer to:

Common uses

Sentence (law) In criminal law, a sentence is the punishment for a crime ordered by a trial court after conviction in a criminal procedure, normally at the conclusion of a trial. A sentence may consist of imprisonment, a fine, or other sanctions. Sentence ...

, a punishment imposed on a person who has been convicted in court of a criminal offence *

Sentence (linguistics) In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a Expression (linguistics), linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional grammar, it is typically defined as a string of words that expre ...

, a grammatical unit of language *

Sentence (mathematical logic) In mathematical logic, a sentence (or closed formula)Edgar Morscher, "Logical Truth and Logical Form", ''Grazer Philosophische Studien'' 82(1), pp. 77–90. of a predicate logic is a Boolean-valued well-formed formula with no free variables. A ...

, a formula not containing free variables

Arts, entertainment, and media

Sentence (music) In Western music theory, the term sentence is analogous to the way the term is used in linguistics, in that it usually refers to a complete, somewhat self-contained statement. Usually a sentence refers to musical spans towards the lower end of the ...

, a type of musical phrase * Sentence (liturgy), a short biblical phrase within Anglican liturgy * ''

Sentences The ''Sentences'' (. ) is a compendium of Christian theology written by Peter Lombard around 1150. It was the most important religious textbook of the Middle Ages. Background The sentence genre emerged from works like Prosper of Aquitaine's ...

'', a 12th-century theological book by Peter Lombard * ''Sentences'' (Muhly), a 2014 oratorio by Nico Muhly * '' Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm'', a 2007 autobiographical graphic novel by MF Grimm * ''The Sentence'' (film), a 2018 documentary by Rudy Valdez * ''The Sentence'' (novel), a 2021 novel by Louise Erdrich * "The Sentence" ''(The Outer Limits)'', an episode of the TV series ''The Outer Limits'' * ''The Sentence'', a 2016 novel and performance piece by Alistair Fruish {{disambiguation