Example sentences for: punished

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

  • That's how some guy on local news described New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, whose latest defeat came Friday when a federal judge found that the city unlawfully punished an AIDS group critical of his administration.

  • "Someone who had no knowledge or involvement in a criminal act is being punished.

  • Melville's Budd is a naive, good man who is punished unfairly for an accidental murder he is provoked into committing by someone who tried to frame him for a crime.

  • In fact, every time Microsoft raises the price of Windows 95, it gets punished twice.

  • But there is one big difference between dividends and debts, which is that if you fail to pay the first, your stock price gets punished, but the company stays in business--while if you fail to pay the second, the company goes under.


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