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Example sentences for: punishment

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

has been a level of punishment that was commensurate with the failures of the president to act appropriately."
Meanwhile, Florida continues to fend off legal challenges to its right to electrocute, behaving as if death itself weren't punishment enough.
Although Lieberman didn't call for any specific punishment for Clinton, the papers view his remarks as high-impact because he made them on the Senate floor and because he is, in the LAT 's words, a "policy soul-mate" of Clinton's.
The judicial system's tendency to mark the odd innocent soul for death is, after all, one of the more powerful arguments against capital punishment.
It depicts the giant Tityus, whose punishment for raping the goddess Leto was to have his liver ripped out each day by a vulture, only to have it grow back each night.