Example sentences for: punishable

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

  • 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.

  • An example highlighted by the paper is the bill currently advancing in the Florida legislature that would make it a crime punishable by up to five years in jail and a $5,000 fine for any local government official or employee to file suit against gunmakers--consequences rarely suffered, it should be noted, by those convicted of illegal gun possession or discharge.

  • 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.


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