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Sentence count:184+9Posted:2016-07-20Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: castigatechastisecorrectdisciplinepenalizeAntonym: forgiveSimilar words: vanishSpanishfinish updiminishfinish withpunchunituniteMeaning: ['pʌnɪʃ]  v. impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on. 
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(61) A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward. Ovid 
(62) The court acknowledged that a state may punish a teacher who disrupts schooling.
(63) But they also reward or punish behavior: The deduction for charitable contributions underwrites generosity.
(64) Yet mothers and fathers are often desperately fearful of such activity and hasten to forbid or punish it.
(65) Several thousand soldiers desert every year, and military prosecutors, knowing the conditions, are reluctant to punish them.
(66) This explains why patriarchal legal codes sometimes ostracize and punish the victim of rape as much as the rapist.
(67) By far the most disturbing aspect of this corruption is the country's reluctance to punish any of the culprits.
(68) The party will continue to assert itself and severely punish political dissent.
(69) So I fell on my knees and asked them not to punish the child any more.
(70) By making an example of Holy Trinity he could punish his Jesuit adversaries and demonstrate his orthodoxy in a single swoop.
(71) Bush insisted that his policy was clear: the United States would punish aggression to insure the new world order.
(72) Attorney General Brewster made an attempt to punish the violators by ordering the local district attorney to make arrests.
(73) Compliance strategy seeks to prevent a harm rather than punish an evil.
(74) Torturers kept making up new arbitrary rules,[http://sentencedict.com/punish.html] for which they would punish disobedience.
(75) Charles the Bald could warn or punish by leaving a trail of havoc along his line of march.
(76) The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him.
(77) Then they led Linkworth to the hanging-shed to punish him for his crime.
(78) How do you motivate people when there is no way to reward the efficient or punish the laggard?
(79) How I try to punish my parents with my sharp tongue.
(80) Tony Marlow says Britain has become too civilised and doesn't punish offenders properly.
(81) They vowed to conduct an investigation and punish those who helped him.
(82) Perhaps you felt guilty about ignoring a charity collection, and so decided to punish yourself?
(83) His offence against those who came to him for medical help was less easy to punish.
(84) Of much greater practical significance, and by no means obsolete, is the power to punish for contempt.
(85) My father threatened to punish them, so they were forced to accept my company.
(86) Suddenly, I want to punish him, to make him pay for my invisibility.
(87) Mrs Aquino now has to decide whether she should be magnanimous in victory or punish those behind the mutiny.
(88) He should be punished for as long as it is humanly possible to punish him.
(89) Ask teachers not to ignore, reject, or punish your child.
(90) The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. Clarence Darrow 
More similar words: vanishSpanishfinish updiminishfinish withpunchunituniteunityuniqueunionuniformjuniorministryrun intodishorganismministerfeministcommunityIrishcolumnistmechanismmunitionsmunicipalbishopwish forJewishparishadminister
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