Example sentences for: punishable

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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