sentencing
adjective
1. Relating to a judicial sentence.
- There were no sentencing guidelines for this crime.
noun
1. The act of pronouncing a judicial sentence on someone convicted of a crime.
- After the verdict, the sentencing was not delayed.
2. (colloquial) The act of creating one or more complete sentences from fragmented thoughts and phrases.
- He struggled with sentencing his frayed and angry verses from poem to prose.
verb
1. present participle of sentence