How to Use penalize in a Sentence

penalize

verb

• The hockey player was penalized for holding.
• The company was penalized for not paying taxes.
• This law would unfairly penalize immigrants.
• That’s because there’s a person or persons who sit in judgment and are in a position to penalize the guilty party.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
• As that use has grown, search engines have become increasingly likely to penalize those who breach online standards.
  — John Hall, Forbes, 1 May 2022
• Narbonne was penalized 15 times and Cathedral 16 times.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2024
• While there are criminal consequences for the destruction of government records, there are none that penalize the failure to create them in the first place.
  — Ryan Nobles, CNN, 1 Apr. 2022
• Right now, many companies are too traditional for asynchronous schedules to really work and not penalize employees who may not work the same hours as their managers.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2022
• The goal is to force firms to disclose information about greenhouse gases and carbon intensity on the assumption that future investors will penalize them because of it.
  — Richard Morrison, National Review, 24 Mar. 2022
• The Rams were penalized twice on the play when Hunter got hit.
  — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Even if a player isn’t penalized, he could still be fined by the league.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2024
• The 49ers were penalized six times for 83 yards, Green Bay only once for five yards.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024
• When the music is not perfect, the show gets penalized.
  — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2023
• The bill would not penalize women who take or obtain the pills.
  — David W. Chen, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Failure to report could be penalized by up to 14 years in prison.
  — Kanis Leung, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2024
• These men teach you not to be kind, not to trust people or let your guard down—and then you're penalized for not being nice.
  — TIME, 7 May 2024
• Or penalize rather than reward kickers who just kick it through the end zone?
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
• After a 3-yard gain by Presley Fant, Boaz was penalized for clipping, moving the ball back to the 18.
  — al, 9 Sep. 2023
• Mapu was penalized for the hit and Waddle did not return before the game was over . . .
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• The Rams were penalized for having 12 men on the field near the conclusion of the Steelers’ game-winning scoring drive.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• And my deepest hope is that my actions don’t penalize my team.
  — Randi Richardson, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2022
• Young said customers who were unable to make a payment due to the outage will not be penalized.
  — Yasmeen Saadi, The Indianapolis Star, 19 July 2024
• The school had been severely penalized twice in a decade by the NCAA for rules violations.
  — Brian O'Keefe, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2024
• Dustin Johnson, with a one-shot lead playing the final hole at Whistling Straits, is penalized two strokes for grounding his club in a bunker on the last hole.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• The people on this team have done some of the best work of their entire careers, and my deepest hope is that my actions don’t penalize my team.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 28 Nov. 2022
• There are plenty of ways that people get penalized for not paying their bills.
  — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 11 June 2024
• So why would anyone penalize him for what has transpired since?
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2022
• This attempt to penalize an athlete for using their voice must be stopped.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2022
• Anger among the rank-and-file about staffing levels and scheduling rules that could penalize them and cost them pay for for taking a sick day had been building for year.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 23 Nov. 2022
• Visa also pressures merchants and banks into agreements that penalize businesses that process debit transactions using a different debit or payment system, the agency said.
  — Alain Sherter, CBS News, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024