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'punished' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'punished' with 16 example sentences.


punished adjective

: 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.
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