Words similar to penalty

Example sentences for: penalty

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

Instead they are pushing marriage penalty tax relief.
There must be an end to the unnecessary recourse to the death penalty.
For one thing, more married couples enjoy a marriage bonus than suffer a marriage penalty (51 percent to 42 percent).
The editorial inside described Tucker as "a manifestly sincere penitent," and said, "One couldn't imagine a better argument against the death penalty than Karla Tucker, or a better demonstration of the absurdity of a social vengeance that is taken after 14 years not against the author of the crime, but against this other person the criminal has become in the meantime."
He surrendered on the death penalty, welfare, and civil liberties while sticking with abortion, gun control, and affirmative action.