PUNISH in a Sentence
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277 example sentences for PUNISH, such as:
1. Capital punishment was regarded as inhuman and immoral.
2. We must punish the villain who has caused the ruin of Moscow.
3. God will punish you, she said admonishingly, turning to Pierre.
4. We have given officers a method to punish before guilt is decided.
5. For your crime, the court will punish you with two years in prison.
2. We must punish the villain who has caused the ruin of Moscow.
3. God will punish you, she said admonishingly, turning to Pierre.
4. We have given officers a method to punish before guilt is decided.
5. For your crime, the court will punish you with two years in prison.
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Meanings and Examples of PUNISH
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punish
v. impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 It's really true, whom the gods want to punish they first make mad.
2 The quartermaster frowned, looking at the soldiers as if threatening to punish them.
3 God will punish you, she said admonishingly, turning to Pierre.
4 Nothing in life seemed to him of much importance, and under the influence of the depression that possessed him he valued neither his liberty nor his resolution to punish his wife.
5 He rode in angry agitation toward him, firmly grasping his whip and fully prepared to take the most resolute and desperate steps to punish his enemy.
6 When sent for by Count Ostermann, Rostov, remembering that he had charged without orders, felt sure his commander was sending for him to punish him for breach of discipline.
7 We must punish the villain who has caused the ruin of Moscow.
8 The soldiers in the yard, hearing the shot, came into the passage asking what had happened, and expressed their readiness to punish the culprits, but the officer sternly checked them.
9 The hatred and contempt of the crowd punish such men for discerning the higher laws.
10 He did not allow himself either to be hard on or punish a man, or to make things easy for or reward anyone, merely because he felt inclined to do so.
11 Power was indeed given him to determine by himself what measures the exigency demanded; to do what he had to do without consultation; and to punish without appeal.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.
12 Whereupon the Romans grew less eager to punish their enemies by dividing their lands, and were content, when they deprived any city of its territory, to send colonists to occupy it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXVII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXVII.
13 But had Tarquin lived like the other kings, when Sextus his son committed that outrage, Brutus and Collatinus would have had recourse to him to punish the offender, and not to the commons of Rome.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V.
14 What made him hated was his being more stern to punish than bountiful to reward; and Livius instances the following circumstances as giving rise to this hatred.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXIII.
15 But if any consul or other leader ever joined battle contrary to the auspices, the Romans would punish him, as they did Claudius Pulcher.
Example Sentence: (67 in 5 pages)
1 According to present law, the authorities can only punish smugglers with small fines.
2 Attorney General Brewster made an attempt to punish the violators by ordering the local district attorney to make arrests.
3 For your crime, the court will punish you with two years in prison.
4 It is the business of the police to prevent and detect crime and of the law courts to punish crime.
5 We should try to reform criminals through labor rather than punish them.
6 The teacher was told by the researcher to regard silence as a wrong answer and to punish it accordingly.
7 The government voted to punish corruption in sport with up to four years in jail.
8 Hamlet vowed he would avenge his father's murder and punish Claudius for his horrible crime.
9 We have given officers a method to punish before guilt is decided.
10 The captain ordered the sergeant to punish the malingerer and force him to work.
11 He was such an engaging scamp that his mother almost lacked the heart to punish him.
12 Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
13 The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
14 Democrats will complain he overemphasizes punishment at the expense of prevention and treatment.
15 Capital punishment was regarded as inhuman and immoral.