The husband was sentenced to be hanged, while the wife received a life sentence.
Passing from one of these departments to the other, through a large gateway, the gate being kept by a convict, an old man who murdered his son, and who has a life sentence.
The sentence imposed, was one year in the penitentiary, and at the end of which time she was to be hung by the neck until dead, which in Kansas is equivalent to a life sentence.
In due time I had my trial and got a life sentence.
It is said he intends to preach after his release,--it must be remembered that a life sentence in Kentucky does not mean confinement for life.
He escaped the death penalty, and received a life sentence, but is already at large, having been paroled 1916.
From his point of view, if he gives this young chap a life sentence, fewer old men will get shot in the back.
Life sentence is what everyone thinks he will get, life sentence.
Detection, arrest and conviction followed in rapid succession, soon bringing down upon me the crushing weight of a "life sentence.
Some time after I learned that he, with several others, had been given a life sentence in the Ohio penitentiary.
An ex-convict, who is one of my helpers now, was prayed out of practically a life sentence by Mother Wheaton.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "life sentence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
