Words similar to penal

Example sentences for: penal

How can you use “penal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Then, after that, the Texas Penal Code redefined car theft to unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and decreased the penalty for the crime.
(Or perhaps not, I've misplaced my copy of the penal code.)
In 1890, he spent 81 days crossing Siberia to the penal colony of Sakhalin so he could spend three months there studying the health conditions, about which he wrote a very full report.
Replacing such a term by a foreign equivalent is a penal offense, and may cost the offender anything from $90 to $200.
"The Laogai Archipelago" describes China's massive, awful penal system, which imprisons between 6 million and 8 million people and favors such barbarous practices as slave labor, torture, and organ-harvesting from executed convicts.