PENALTY in a Sentence
Learn PENALTY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
67 example sentences for PENALTY, such as:
1. They made him promise, under penalty of death.
2. There will be a penalty for late payment of bills.
3. He miskicked the ball twice at the edge of the penalty box.
4. Bell's flick into the penalty area helped to create the goal.
5. We alone is the best penalty we originally fault how difficult.
2. There will be a penalty for late payment of bills.
3. He miskicked the ball twice at the edge of the penalty box.
4. Bell's flick into the penalty area helped to create the goal.
5. We alone is the best penalty we originally fault how difficult.
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Meanings and Examples of PENALTY
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penalty
n. the act of punishing
n. (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1 Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part of the culprit in respect to his fault.
2 Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty and was condemned to the death penalty in consequence.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
3 The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
4 It had been expressly agreed that Pontmercy should never attempt to see his son nor to speak to him, under penalty of having the latter handed over to him disowned and disinherited.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
5 During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was as good as abolished, and the erection of a scaffold was a violence committed against the King.
6 In case of any attempt to escape, the penalty of death is to be applied.
7 de Treville, and permitted him to distribute furloughs for four days, on condition that the favored parties should not appear in any public place, under penalty of the Bastille.
8 For which reason, and because they thought that to such persons the mere ignominy of defeat was in itself punishment enough, they would not dishearten their generals by inflicting on them any heavier penalty.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXI.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXI.
9 Whereupon, the Veientines, like those others of whom mention has just now been made, had to pay the penalty of their insolence.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXVI.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXVI.
10 Yet neither of them ever ventured to strike the blow; till at last, their scheme being discovered, they paid the penalty of their combined cowardice and temerity.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
11 In the end, the rebels having no leader to advise them, and perceiving too late the error into which they had been betrayed, had to pay the penalty of their rashness by perpetual banishment.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
12 And as they were the sins of princes, it is the princes who have also suffered the penalty.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In CHAPTER XII — HOW MANY KINDS OF SOLDIERY THERE ARE, AND C...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER XII — HOW MANY KINDS OF SOLDIERY THERE ARE, AND C...
13 At one time I considered whether I should not declare myself guilty and suffer the penalty of the law, less innocent than poor Justine had been.
14 On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself.
15 This penalty of being jiggered was a favorite supposititious case of his.
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 We alone is the best penalty we originally fault how difficult.
2 Supporters of the death penalty argue that it would deter criminals from carrying guns.
3 The district attorney said if McVeigh is given the death penalty and his conviction is upheld on appeal, the state prosecution would become moot.
4 If you knock the ball with your hand in football, you will suffer a penalty.
5 They made him promise, under penalty of death.
6 An extra-time penalty gave Barcelona a last-gasp win over Chelsea.
7 In the budget before last a tax penalty on the mobile phone was introduced.
8 Thirteen people have been charged with treason — an offence which can carry the death penalty.
9 Defenders of the death penalty clearly regard it as the ultimate deterrent.
10 Bell's flick into the penalty area helped to create the goal.
11 He miskicked the ball twice at the edge of the penalty box.
12 Ireland squandered several chances, including a penalty that cost them the game.
13 It is easy to have an opinion on a moral issue like the death penalty for murder.
14 There will be a penalty for late payment of bills.
15 He wasted a golden opportunity when he missed from the penalty spot.