argue vs sentence

argue

verb
  • To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor). 

  • To have an argument, a quarrel. 

  • To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints. 

  • To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply. 

sentence

verb
  • To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence. 

  • To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment. 

noun
  • A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation. 

  • A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime. 

  • The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime. 

  • Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar. 

  • A formula with no free variables. 

How often have the words argue and sentence occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )