Example sentences for: punishable

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

  • 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."

  • 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.”

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

  • 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.

  • 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.


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