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:

Some years elapsed before the British decided to establish a penal settlement in the land which Cook, when he took possession of it in 1770, primarily to forestall the French, named New South Wales.
The word, clearly, is penile , from penis; penal comes from the lantin poena `pain or punishment.
At the level of policy, Wachtler has written a fine book, a worthy dissertation on the American penal system.
Then, after that, the Texas Penal Code redefined car theft to unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and decreased the penalty for the crime.
"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.