def METHOD_NAME(sent):
    sent = sent.replace('i&gt;', '').replace('&lt;', '').replace('&gt;', '')
    sent = re.sub(r'x[0-9|a-f][0-9|a-f]', ' ', sent)
    sent = sent.replace('\\', '').replace('-', '')
    sent = ' '.join(re.findall(r"[\w']+|[.,!?:;]", sent))
    sent = sent.replace('. .', '...')
    sent = ' '.join(sent.split())
    return sent