Example sentences for: punishments

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

  • There are no punishments for not sharing information.

  • But this caveat has a countercaveat: The prospect of future punishments gives you an incentive to investigate the corporation's history before you buy, which improves the chance that bad behavior can be uncovered while the actual perpetrators can still be punished.

  • Hate crime laws generally impose tougher punishments when crimes such as rape, arson, assault, intimidation, and damage of property are motivated by bias.

  • There's a Dick Morris-1995 flavor to the inventive punishments applied to absent fathers, the public enemies who have no friends.

  • She put up with petty bad stuff too, like the constant carping of her male colleagues about her lack of a gentle touch, or the punishments doled out by the writers for her--a single mother--occasional forays into romance.


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