Example sentences for: punishable

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

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

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • 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.

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


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