'punished' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'punished' with 16 example sentences.
- punished adjective
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: subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience)
Our parents never punished us.
I didn't do what I'm being punished for.
The government punished them severely.
He told the truth, otherwise he would have been punished.
She knows she'll be punished.
Everyone must obey the rules. Those who don't will be punished.
Why are we being punished?
I knew you weren't going to be punished.
The student was punished for smoking.
He was punished for drunken driving.
Murder is punished by death.
He was punished for stealing the money.
We took it for granted that he had been punished.
That is a criminal offense, and you will surely be punished!
All traitors of the fatherland will be punished.
The robber escaped being punished.