Sentence example with the word 'penalty'

penalty

abatement, cargo, condemnation, depreciation, encumbrance, imposition, load, payment, price-cut, rollback, trouble

Definition n. the act of punishing

Last update: September 4, 2015


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June 2006 News from Amnesty - Phillippines abolish the death penalty,Friday, 09.   [noun]

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The Covenant also lays down penalty clauses if its terms are not rigidly adhered to.   [noun]

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Milton, a Republican outlaw, who has escaped the penalty of his treasonous pamphlets only because he is blind and old and poor.   [noun]

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But Dolly feigned not to understand, at the penalty of many a heart-pang.   [noun]

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The lower 'classis' has paid its penalty, and only the strong and hardy are left.'   [noun]

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The penalty would be wrong, outrageous, ruinous; no rich man would submit to it, but a poor man must.   [noun]

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The host of the faithful that was broken upon Pentland-hills, paid but the fitting penalty of acknowledging the carnal interest of that tyrant and oppressor, Charles Stewart.   [noun]

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My guards spoke of a possibility of exchanging the penalty for entry into foreign service.   [noun]

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The lightest penalty he could inflict must be banishment from Egypt.   [noun]

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Death is the penalty of perjury.   [noun]

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"Nor can you be surprised, if a poacher is caught, that he incurs the penalty," replied the Roundhead.   [noun]

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