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
• Three young women are sent to the fledgling British penal colony of Australia in the 1840s.
  — Star Tribune, 15 Sep. 2020
• 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
• On the other side of the barbed wire, the Texas towns that housed the new penal facilities prospered.
  — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2020
• 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
• The bunkers are penal, composed of a dark, heavy dirt and surrounded by fescue.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Ripley gets stranded on a planet with an all-male penal colony and not much else.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 15 May 2017
• He was awarded the prize while serving a more than two-year sentence in a Russian penal colony.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
• The Gray Wastes differ in both size and mission from the penal systems of earlier eras.
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2016
• 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
• The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling their condemned.
  — Mario Nicolais, The Denver Post, 18 May 2017
• Sydney, Australia Sydney has come a long way since its days as a British penal colony.
  — Teen Vogue, 25 Mar. 2019
• 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
• Nor can anyone guess how long ISIS members will remain in the penal system after they have been convicted.
  — Vera Mironova, Foreign Affairs, 1 Dec. 2016
• Tanner Leopold, 27, a correctional sergeant, faces one count of abuse of residents of penal facilities.
  — Vanessa Swales, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024