How to Use punish in a Sentence

punish

verb

• She was punished for lying.
• State law punishes fraud with fines.
• His parents punished him by taking away his allowance.
• I think that murderers should be punished by life imprisonment.
• How should I punish my child's misbehavior?
• The book store’s owner, Mr. Mooney, would lock Joe in the cage as a young boy to punish him.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 10 Mar. 2023
• The whole student body are thus to be punished for the actions of just a few.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 22 Sep. 2024
• He was allowed to briefly cause chaos and in the end was not punished for his antics.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• The misdemeanor crime can be punished with up to three months in jail.
  — Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2024
• Some of them were even prepared to punish Biden for it at the ballot box.
  — Monica Potts, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2024
• The defense fails to step out, and Dame punishes them with a pull-up three that finds the bottom of the net.
  — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
• In order to punish the Pharaoh to free the Israelites, God sent a series of 10 plagues to Egypt.
  — Holly Rizzuto Palker, Parents, 17 Sep. 2023
• Any violent crime should, of course, be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
  — Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
• None of the 60 students involved in the photo were punished.
  — Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2024
• For Lalas, that’s punishing Mas for investing in his team and the league.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• Hansen felt that she was being punished and struggled not to cry.
  — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 20 May 2024
• Yet this is in no way a jarring picture, or one that seeks to punish us with harsh truths.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 12 July 2024
• If so, why should Pharaoh be punished for refusing to allow the Jews to leave Egypt?
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
• Your daughter is using your love for the grands to punish you for not forking over even more.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
• Maybe people in charge of the decision want to punish you for leaving, or just have it in for you.
  — Karla Miller, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
• In fact, the public policy is that the state cannot punish a person based on the content of their speech.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 3 July 2023
• Those who violate the law face a misdemeanor that can be punished with up to one year in prison and a $1,000 fine.
  — Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
• Alexander said the Khan case isn’t proof of greater fraud but proof that anyone who attempts it will be punished.
  — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
• The Giants’ only bright spot was a home run by Jorge Soler, who punished one 410 feet to left field for his fourth home run of the year.
  — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 20 Apr. 2024
• Jackson punished the child by spanking her with a belt, police said.
  — Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 May 2024
• The respondents counter that the city is punishing them for their very survival.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2024
• Landry argued that teenagers who commit such heinous crimes must be punished as adults.
  — ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2024
• More than a dozen states already ban most abortions, and those laws punish doctors with prison and steep fines.
  — David W. Chen, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• With July’s punishing heat came the most active start to fire season in more than a decade.
  — Cameron Duran, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2024
• No curfew or irate parents waited at home to punish them.
  — Weike Wang, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024