Hyphenation of sentence

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word sentence? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

sen-tence

Definitions of sentence:

1.	A string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language He always spoke in grammatical sentences
2.	(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed The conviction came as no surprise
3.	The period of time a prisoner is imprisoned He served a prison term of 15 months His sentence was 5 to 10 years He is doing time in the county jail
4.	Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law He was condemned to ten years in prison

Synonyms of sentence:

noun	string of words, word string, linguistic string
noun	conviction, judgment of conviction, condemnation, final judgment, final decision
noun	prison term, time, term
verb	condemn, doom, declare

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.