Example sentences for: punishable

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

  • Maître-Créche, on the other hand, was charged with a felony, punishable by a maximum prison sentence of 25 years, because the term was not used in “the ephemeral, innocuous context of speech,” according to the prosecutor, but in the “semi-non-ephemeral, culturally reverberative context of advertising.”

  • The United States inherited English common law, which made adultery, as well as fornication (sex between unmarried people) and sodomy (oral and anal sex), punishable crimes.

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

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

  • 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.


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