punishing in English

adjective
verb
1
inflict a penalty or sanction on (someone) as retribution for an offense, especially a transgression of a legal or moral code.
I have done wrong and I'm being punished for it
synonyms:disciplineteach someone a lessontan someone's hidewallopcome down on (like a ton of bricks)

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "punishing" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "punishing", or refer to the context using the word "punishing" in the English Dictionary.

1. So is punishing those who purloin classified materials.

2. Not punishing these hooligan amounts to condoning their behavior.

3. Now you're punishing me because you think I'm superstitious?

4. That's understandable. So is punishing those who purloin classified materials.

5. 16 The boxer was floored by a punishing left jab.

6. Was for punishing the principal as well as the Coadjutors

7. Bottlenecks can have punishing consequences on projects—and their teams

8. Shame is a self-punishing acknowledgment of something gone wrong.

9. WHO Reverses Course, Now Advises Against Use of 'Punishing' Lockdowns

10. Stop punishing me because I had to satisfy my curiosity.

11. Maybe this whole " erectile misfiring " is God's way of punishing me.

12. 2 His punishing work schedule had made him resort to drugs.

13. Kevin's mother had rather malevolent ways of punishing a three-year-old.

14. Monroe is punishing him... with blows to the head and the body,

15. Why would Jesus heal sick people if God was punishing them for wrongdoing?

16. Yet, punishing Daniel’s accusers must have incurred the animosity of the remaining officials.

17. Abusing or punishing a Roman citizen could cost a Roman officer his post.

18. Kids judge the fairness and effectiveness of their parents'approaches to punishing misbehavior, for example.

19. 9 Just because your Bridegrooms have died, that is no reason for punishing us

20. Synonyms for Avenging include requiting, revenging, redressing, repaying, retaliating, venging, bewreaking, chastening, chastising and punishing

21. 27 He claimed his punishing work schedule had made him resort to taking the drug.

22. The Delhi government proposed techniques like using CCTV cameras and punishing students for Bunking lectures

23. They should also repeal any national laws criminalizing abortion or punishing women for undergoing the procedure

24. Women reinforce this double standard when we compete to stay young, another punishing and losing proposition.

25. They should also repeal any national laws criminalizing abortion or punishing women for undergoing the procedure.

26. In this context, coercive behaviors include behaviors that are ordinarily punishing (e.g., whining, yelling, hitting, etc.).

27. Our Commutators are manufactured to meet high strength and durability standards to endure the most punishing conditions

28. Cyanic was a punishing Blackened Death Metal band from San Jose, California, that took formation in 2004

29. When it comes to punishing Nazi Collaborators, Greece is no exception in comparison to other European countries

30. The Authoress also enforces her own sense of woman’s honor by punishing the disloyal and debauched slavewomen

31. Find Bambara bio, music, credits, awards, & streaming links on AllMusic - Brooklyn-based group who play harsh, punishing

32. A punishing schedule that has left the engine spluttering and the chief mechanic unable to furnish suitable replacement parts.

33. The girl later admitted she made the story up to get back at the teacher for punishing her boyfriend.

34. The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, Amuses, and delights him

35. No other event in sport, except possibly a prizefight, is as punishing, as demanding of the mind and body.

36. Arduous definition: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort synonyms: heavy, effortful, hard, punishing, operose, laborious

37. The effects of the storm rippled through the economy of New York and the eastern seaboard, punishing some, rewarding others.

38. After five hours of punishing weather, the worst of the storm passed; and the warship limped to Ulithi for repairs.

39. When natural disasters strike, for instance, they think that these events are God’s way of punishing those who have sinned.

40. The fact that you have not made the progress you aimed for is punishing enough without adding more aversive consequences.

41. “The government should reform its land law and compensation system instead of punishing people who protest the loss of their land.”

42. It would enable States to cooperate in suppressing terrorism and in punishing the perpetrators, abettors, financiers, facilitators and collaborators of terrorism.

43. 12 This has involved giving a bit of leeway to freethinking individuals, but occasionally punishing those seen as straying too far.

44. From the lush hills of Chersonese, the ancient barrows of Enmerkar Forest, the punishing Abrassar desert, and the treacherous Hallowed Marsh

45. Afterimage's punishing narrative pays dividends through Andrzej Wajda's still-formidable control and a message that, while certainly grim, is undeniably worthy

46. He has always been fanatically into body culture, punishing his muscles to keep them at the peak of definition and tone.

47. After punishing the officers in charge of the naval contingent for their lax discipline, Scipio and the Roman army wintered at Tarraco.

48. And after a while of not punishing myself, the Binges and the urge to binge started to lose their grip on me

49. Bill of Attainder is a legislative act pronouncing a person guilty of a crime, and punishing them without benefit of a trial

50. Ahimsa also inspired a great amount of ancient works that discussed the morality of violence including war, self-defence and punishing criminals