diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/com/marvinelsen/willow/database/CreateDatabase.kt b/src/main/kotlin/com/marvinelsen/willow/database/CreateDatabase.kt
index 43b4712..647589e 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/com/marvinelsen/willow/database/CreateDatabase.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/com/marvinelsen/willow/database/CreateDatabase.kt
@@ -55,6 +55,21 @@ fun main() {
         "CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_entry_searchable_pinyin_with_tone_numbers ON entry (searchable_pinyin_with_tone_numbers)"
     )
 
+    statement.executeUpdate(
+        """
+        CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS sentence(
+            id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
+            traditional TEXT NOT NULL,
+            simplified TEXT NOT NULL,
+            character_count INTEGER NOT NULL,
+            CONSTRAINT character_count_gte CHECK(character_count > 0)
+        );
+        """.trimIndent()
+    )
+    statement.executeUpdate("CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_sentence_traditional ON sentence (traditional)")
+    statement.executeUpdate("CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_sentence_simplified ON sentence (simplified)")
+    statement.executeUpdate("CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_sentence_character_count ON sentence (character_count)")
+
     val cedictParser = CedictParser.instance
     val cedictEntries =
         cedictParser.parseCedict(