death sentence

Example Sentences

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"I had no understanding of what that meant, I thought it was potentially a death sentence."

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

“A data center should not be a potential death sentence for a community’s health,” NAACP’s Director of Environmental and Climate Justice Abre’ Conner said in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

For many years, the illness was considered a death sentence, with a five-year survival rate of just 25 percent.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

It is incurable, with a median life expectancy of 12 to 18 months—in other words, a death sentence.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

For an enslaved man in Tennessee at that time, a murder conviction would have resulted in a swift death sentence.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis