Example sentences for: punished

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

  • Still, he insists that his "ethical lapse" must be punished.

  • If he had been re-elected, Congress would have probably punished him by cutting his salary; eliminating the security guards who remain; and stripping him of the few, pathetic agencies he does control.

  • 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.

  • That doesn't justify the ongoing disparity between criminal sentences for possession of powder cocaine and possession of crack--crack is much more likely to be used by blacks, and is punished much more harshly--but it does justify the tougher approach law enforcement agencies take in general today, as compared to two decades ago.

  • Many Republicans decided to impeach Clinton to send a message that the law must be obeyed and that the unrepentant president must be punished.


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