minor sentence

noun

, Grammar.

1. any sentence that is not a true full sentence; a transformation by deletion from a full sentence.
2. a sentence not having the usual subject-predicate structure, as Down with the dictator!

Example Sentences

Until the same year, a husband could kill his wife if he believed she had committed adultery and receive only a minor sentence.

From The Guardian

More often it was ill-timed and artificial, a burst of irrational sound after a minor sentence.

From Time Magazine Archive