Punish

//ˈpʌnɪʃ//

"Punish" in a Sentence (19 examples)

We thought it wrong that you should punish him.

Punish the wicked and save the weak.

Don't punish the boy severely; go easy on him.

Do not punish the girl severely; go easy on her.

In Singapore, one way to punish a criminal is to whip him or her.

In the name of the moon, we'll punish you!

Parents punish their children for misbehavior.

Don't punish him for breaking the window. He is not to blame.

They sought to punish him for his crime but he escaped.

She wished to punish only those responsible.

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If a prince violates the law, then he must be punished like an ordinary person.

It was not from the want of proper laws that dangerous principles had been disseminated, and had assumed a threatening aspect, but because those laws had not been employed by the executive power to remedy the evil, and to punish the offenders.

The law needs to punish this behaviour as a deterrent to others.

But officials here maintain that their methods do make a difference, and they follow it up with post-release programs. The aim of Bastoy is not to punish or seek revenge, Nilsen said. The only punishment is to take away the prisoner’s right to be a free member of society.

His mother had punished him when he'd deserved it. She'd loved him, he was “all she had,” but she'd punished him, too.

But each effort that Anna makes —and she has attempted many— meets with obstacles from a welfare bureaucracy that punishes single mothers for initiative and partial economic self-sufficiency.

Homer, moreover, gives the impression that the Sun punished Odysseus's men; but we are later told that the Sun cannot punish individual men […]

The rider who comes back on his horse in mid-air over a fence is punishing his horse severely.

A few moments later, we were all sitting around the veranda of the hunters' dining hall, punishing the gin, as usual.

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