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Example sentences for: punitive

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

Opening with a female silhouette walking away from a punitive "personnel" sign, it follows her unsteady progress down a flight of stairs and uses a staccato colloquy between her colleagues to dramatize the injustice:
The paper notes that France may balk at punitive measures directed against Serbia.
Other than the FDA provision, these were all voluntary agreements on the part of the industry, which made them in exchange for protection against class action suits and punitive liability.
The CDU committed a civil offense by ignoring this law, and now faces punitive fines totaling twice the undisclosed contributions, in addition to having to forfeit the actual contributions to parliament.
If you want to pick a moment when a punitive law against tobacco became almost inevitable, it might very well be that April day four years ago when seven tobacco executives went before a House committee and said that nicotine was not addictive.