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death sentences

death sentences is the plural of death sentence.

Meaning of death sentence

Noun

death sentence (plural death sentences)

  1. A decree that someone be put to death as a punishment for a crime; a sentence of execution.
    • Tyrion’s tears contain the symbolic weight of his whole life; he wouldn’t be here if not for Jaime, as he admits, and his last hope is to give the man who risked everything to help him survive the same chance. Tyrion knows it’s a death sentence from Daenerys to betray her in this way, but he no...2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 15 May 2019
  2. (figuratively) Anything that spells death.
    • Having the Huntington's gene is a death sentence.

Questions about death sentences

What is death sentences the plural of?
Death sentences is the plural of death sentence.

Words near death sentences in the dictionary

  1. death save
  2. death saves
  3. death seat
  4. death seats
  5. death sentence
  6. death sentences
  7. death slide
  8. death slides
  9. death slot
  10. death slots
  11. death spiral

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