PUNISHMENT in a Sentence

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1. Let the punishment fit the crime.
2. He feels that his dreadful punishment is just.
3. As punishment,the corporal was demoted to private.
4. The punishment should be proportional to the crime.
5. Expulsion from school is a harsh form of punishment.

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 Meanings and Examples of PUNISHMENT
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punishment
 n.  imposition of a penalty as retribution for an offense
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She had been raised in the bedroom of Solange Robillard, Ellen O'Hara's mother, a dainty, cold, high-nosed French-woman, who spared neither her children nor her servants their just punishment for any infringement of decorum.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  This was one time when she knew she couldn't wiggle out of her punishment by sitting on his knee and being sweet and pert.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  Instead of punishment or reproof, she only regretted he had been shot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  The convicts would be afraid to complain to her for fear of worse punishment after she was gone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  As sinful men, it is a lesson to us all, because it is a story of the sin, hard-heartedness, suddenly awakened fears, the swift punishment, repentance, prayers, and finally the deliverance and joy of Jonah.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
6  He feels that his dreadful punishment is just.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
7  And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
8  Nevertheless, after I went to bed, this idea of punishment and Purgatory came back on me crushingly.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
9  Nothing but the most prompt, speedy and extreme punishment can hold in check the horrible and beastial propensities of the Negro race.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
10  The swift punishment which invariably follows these horrible crimes doubtless acts as a deterring effect upon the Negroes in that immediate neighborhood for a short time.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
11  The facts of the crime appear to appeal more to the Negro's lustful imagination than the facts of the punishment do to his fears.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
12  The strong arm of the law must be brought to bear upon lynchers in severe punishment, but this cannot and will not be done unless a healthy public sentiment demands and sustains such action.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VI
13  By the right exercise of his power as the industrial factor of the South, the Afro-American can demand and secure his rights, the punishment of lynchers, and a fair trial for accused rapists.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  This called for punishment, of course; and the police proceeded to administer it by leaping from the truck and cracking at every head they saw.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
15  When he had enumerated the many different occasions on which the Hurons had exhibited their courage and prowess, in the punishment of insults, he digressed in a high encomium on the virtue of wisdom.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
Example Sentence: (67 in 5 pages)
16  Community punishment is used for less serious offenders.
17  Let the punishment fit the crime.
18  The punishment should be proportional to the crime.
19  Expulsion from school is a harsh form of punishment.
20  Group counselling is used as an alternative idea to punishment.
21  He was forbidden to leave the house, as a punishment.
22  Schools should not mete out physical punishment to children.
23  He felt he had a right to mete out physical punishment to the children.
24  As punishment,the corporal was demoted to private.
25  Obviously what she did was wrong, but I don't think it warranted quite such severe punishment.
26  The punishment should adequately reflect the revulsion felt by most people for this appalling crime.
27  So a stallion may respond to punishment from us by trying to kick us with greater determination instead.
28  Those who seek to grab power through violence deserve punishment.
29  He presently got safely beyond the reach of capture and punishment.
30  Before being taken to the execution chamber he acknowledged that he deserved punishment, but he said it was unfair that he was paying the ultimate price while his co-defendant, his girlfriend, who was charged as a juvenile, had the chance of a normal life.