How to Use penal in a Sentence

penal

adjective

• Australia was once a penal colony.
• He was sentenced in June to 14 years in a penal colony.
  — Jonathan Abrams, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Dec. 2022
• He was sentenced to more than two years in a penal colony.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
• In August, she was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony.
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2022
• By then, he’d already been buried in a pauper’s grave on the grounds of the Hinds County penal farm.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• In fact, two of the young women were sentenced to one of Russia’s penal colonies.
  — Evgeny Lebedev, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2022
• He has been sentenced to two-plus years in prison and sent to a penal colony outside of Moscow.
  — Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 16 June 2021
• Short sentences in Russia are served in jails while most longer terms are served in penal colonies.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2021
• Griner, 31, was sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony, and experts say such places are as bad as the term sounds.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2022
• Griner’s transfer to a penal colony marked that milestone.
  — Ivan Nechepurenko, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2022
• But a year later Reed was sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2022
• Mota says this is about the structure of our penal system.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2021
• Just last month, the athlete was transferred to one of the harshest types of Russian penal colonies for women.
  — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2022
• One year later, Reed was sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2022
• He was awarded the prize while serving a more than two-year sentence in a Russian penal colony.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
• She was convicted and sentenced in August to serve nine years in a penal colony.
  — Ann M. Simmons, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• But white leaders found a workaround via the penal system.
  — Ashlee Marie Preston, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Mar. 2021
• Rybakov was sentenced to six years in a penal colony above the Arctic Circle and Volkov to seven years.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
• Griner spent months in a penal colony after being sentenced to 9½ years in prison on minor drug charges.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
• At least some Ukrainians were taken to a former penal colony.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 22 May 2022
• Russia’s penal colonies, though improved, are still set up along the lines of Gulag camps created in the 1930s.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 2 Mar. 2021
• More details are emerging about the penal colony Brittney Griner has been sent to in Russia to serve a 9-year sentence.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2022
• Alyokhina and her friend Nadya Tolokonnikova spent two years in penal colonies.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
• She has been transferred to a penal colony roughly 300 miles southeast of Moscow, per Reuters.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 18 Nov. 2022
• Arson in the third degree can carry a sentence of up to 15 years in prison, according to New York penal law.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
• The 32-year-old Griner is serving a nine-year sentence for drug possession at a Russian penal colony.
  — Janie McCauley, ajc, 21 Nov. 2022
• The 64-year-old, who was born in a Russian Arctic penal colony that his mother had been sent to, made several trips to bring equipment to the front line.
  — Artem Bondar, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• The company mines in one of the world’s most northern cities, Norilsk—a former penal colony.
  — Alistair MacDonald, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
• Brittney Griner has started her nine-year prison sentence at a penal colony in Mordovia.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2022
• Graves of unclaimed people at the Hinds County penal farm are marked only with numbers.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024