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.
• 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
• Hadley was even penalized a point during the fight for two eye pokes.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 23 Oct. 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
• That led the board to penalize Posey with a 60-day suspension.
  — Jeremy Gorner, chicagotribune.com, 5 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Biden said Manchin has pushed back on measures that would penalize coal production in his home state.
  — Time, 22 Oct. 2021
• So why would anyone penalize him for what has transpired since?
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2022
• So why penalize teams like the Guardians, who have put a winning team on the field for eight of the last nine years on a payroll that consistently ranks in the bottom five?
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 4 Dec. 2021
• As of now, there is no word on if Tiafoe will be penalized due to his behavior toward Pinoargote.
  — Danielle Jennings, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024
• This attempt to penalize an athlete for using their voice must be stopped.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2022
• The Ravens were also penalized 12 times for 80 yards, with the offensive line a frequent culprit.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 17 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Richardson was also penalized for intentional grounding in the fourth quarter.
  — Colton Pouncy, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024