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

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.
She favored alternative punishments, longed to help troubled kids, worried about Draconian anti-immigration policy, and disliked the death penalty, mandatory minimum sentences, and the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity.
You would need to show that the racial breakouts of punishments are disproportionate, not to the racial composition of the student bodies, but to the racial composition of the rule breakers .
Over the past 24 hours, authorities on two of America's most distant shores handed down punishments to two miscreants, Capt.
The White House spin: Clemency is about justice, and the prisoners' punishments did not fit their crimes.