Can You Use It In A Sentence?

Jail warning... and a vocabulary lesson for riots scooter hoodie

Judge Roger Chappel warned him of "a substantial custodial sentence". The teenager asked: "What do you mean by substantial? I don't know that word." The judge replied: "Long."

So we have a piece of inner city pond scum who doesn’t know the meaning of the word ‘substantial’ [no surprise really]

And yet one wonders if this will also be another case of a Judge who does not know the meaning of the word ‘long’.

Out in just TWO years: 'Soft' sentence for serial teen offender caught on camera fleeing after brazen stabbing of a young man in broad daylight

Plus other too numerous to mention, just read JuliaM most days

I will await the actual sentencing with interest.