Example sentences for: punishable

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

  • What you call "noncooperation" with the IRS is called "tax evasion" by the feds and is punishable by jail time.

  • Experts on French criminal syntax say that Maître-Crèche was lucky that he didn't use the future anterior tense, which is punishable by the guillotine.

  • 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.

  • This one makes stalking across interstate lines or on U.S. government property a federal offense, punishable by five years to life in prison.

  • This all occurred in front of the shogun, which meant serious trouble, because displaying a weapon in the shogun's presence was punishable by death.


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