Example sentences for: punishable

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

  • We felt that, ideally, the AIDSS accurately described the distribution of diseases in the population by person, time, and place because disease reporting was mandatory and failure to report was a punishable offense.

  • The focus on legalistic descriptions of punishable human behavior ignores unconscious behavior, the habits many men are accustomed to that don't call for punishment but are still harmful--what Conley says occurs within "the reverberating circuitry of maleness."

  • Skuratov said top officials, acting on inside information (not a directly punishable offense), yanked cash out of treasury bills before the ruble's collapse last August and then sent it abroad.

  • Buying a single bottle of wine from out-of-state is a third-degree felony in Kentucky, Georgia, and Florida and is punishable with fines of up to $2,000 and jail time.

  • Back when the Zulu king was entitled to more than 100 women, coughing or spitting at his dinner table was punishable by death.


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