Meaning of death sentence | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A decree that someone be put to death as a punishment for a crime; a sentence of execution.
2. Anything that spells death.
   figuratively

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Examples

“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 longer cares.”

“Comrades, here and now I pronounce the death sentence upon Snowball.”

“Having the Huntington's gene is a death sentence.”

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