diff --git a/types/sbd/index.d.ts b/types/sbd/index.d.ts
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+++ b/types/sbd/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for sbd 1.0
+// Project: http://github.com/tessmore/sbd
+// Definitions by: Brian Cort <https://github.com/thatcort>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+export interface Options {
+    newline_boundaries?: boolean;
+    html_boundaries?: boolean;
+    sanitize?: boolean;
+    allowed_tags?: false | string[];
+    preserve_whitespace?: boolean;
+    abbreviations?: string[];
+}
+
+export function sentences(text: string, options?: Options): string[];
diff --git a/types/sbd/sbd-tests.ts b/types/sbd/sbd-tests.ts
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+import * as tokenizer from 'sbd';
+
+const text = "On Jan. 20, former Sen. Barack Obama became the 44th President of the U.S. Millions attended the Inauguration.";
+tokenizer.sentences(text);
+tokenizer.sentences(text, {sanitize: true});
diff --git a/types/sbd/tsconfig.json b/types/sbd/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "sbd-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/sbd/tslint.json b/types/sbd/tslint.json
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+++ b/types/sbd/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }