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    Use "punishing" in a sentence

    punishing example sentences

    punishing


    1. proved too much for her to handle, and instead of punishing him, she chose to look


    2. ‘Do you think that God is punishing us?’


    3. returned, Aetes had little interest in punishing me


    4. Raven raised his eyebrows in disbelief, but before he could speak, Andre continued, “The prison sentence is more about consoling the public than it is about punishing the offender


    5. by accelerating, the effect on the human body was punishing


    6. had not just come through the punishing ordeal of the shift


    7. The pirate had figured Cheeryup would have tired by now and chosen to hide rather than keep up her punishing pace


    8. He was a brutal slave owner, breaking up slave families, selling off disobedient slaves, and punishing slaves severely, even publicly stating that slaves needed to be kept in line with whipping


    9. Essentially Johnson threw away most of what Unionist fought the Civil War for, ending slavery and punishing treason


    10. Meanwhile, she lashed out with accusation that Beth was punishing her for stealing the money when she refused a drug she could have self-injected

    11. Pain and indignation may have blinded momentarily the Spanish voters, but by punishing the government, in fact they have also congratulated, applauded and emboldened those perverse terrorists whose only purpose consists in causing devastation and eliminating lives


    12. The term can mean anything from business interests to the need for military bases to simply punishing any nation that does not agree with the US government


    13. He just knew that God was punishing him for stealing that apple pie


    14. Why are you punishing me this way? ¿Por qué me castigas así?


    15. What did I do wrong? Maybe I was too excited about it and life is punishing me


    16. They may even ask questions like: “why is God punishing me?” One of the biggest reasons for this is the false church with her false teachers whom make you practise and believe in a religion which is totally in vain!


    17. You cannot harm or punish another without harming or punishing yourself


    18. Evil has become their habit, very difficult to change them, only to find their weaknesses, punishing evil evil


    19. 30 Teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions, serpents, and the sword punishing the wicked to destruction


    20. Ariana: Elijah has gone mad with anger and he is punishing my sister with no cause

    21. Why was I continuing this ordeal, punishing myself so very severely, not calling it a day, I am at loss to explain


    22. But then an image of my brother appeared in my mind, and every cell in my body angrily reacted to the words I was about to bring onto my lips, punishing me, hating me for what I was about to say


    23. But here is my question: what if there were another neighbourhood that had even less wealth and a lower standard of living than our attackers? And what if that poorer neighbourhood were also to suffer from the Fourier complex and thus decide to punish our attackers the same way they are punishing us? In life, inequality of all sorts will always exist


    24. think there was some superior being punishing us with the ash in


    25. An awful lot of our friends thought that God was punishing


    26. terrible and hurtful that she is punishing me by removing herself


    27. He was punishing me


    28. God is punishing me for not wanting her,” Emma said while sobbing on her bed


    29. 3 Whom when the tyrant beheld encircling their mother as in a dance he was pleased at them; and being struck with their becoming and ingenuous mien smiled on them and calling them near said: 4 O youths with favourable feelings I admire the beauty of each of you; and greatly honouring so numerous a band of brethren I not only counsel you not to share the madness of the old man who has been tortured before 5 but I do beg you to yield and to enjoy my friendship; for I possess the power not only of punishing those who disobey my commands but of doing good to those who obey them


    30. punishing myself without his presence

    31. That way we won’t feel worthy enough to come to God, or are fearful of Him punishing us


    32. He knew it would not be long before the desertions began and punishing deserters would also deal a huge blow to the men’s morale, because seeing a comrade’s feet swinging from a jib is not the best way to keep a credible fighting force in check


    33. Many have often mistaken reaping consequences of sin, for God punishing them


    34. The mother will never stop making us feeling guilty and punishing us,


    35. I sobbed and cursed, believing that God was punishing me for my past sins; that,


    36. Aborting now would be punishing an innocent life for


    37. Do you have faith in your GOD in heaven? Do you believe he is a punishing GOD or a loving GOD? Do you believe he has no power to control the


    38. There is no need in me punishing you my son


    39. It was the old variation of the original sin thing: you had to prove yourself worthy by purifying and punishing your soul


    40. Zeus was punishing the whole camp because of me

    41. Basically, people withhold forgiveness as if they are punishing their villains


    42. In a punishing assault, he brutally raped her, the pain of the


    43. Most teachers cope with the fear of losing control and being asked questions they can't answer by rewarding obsequiousness and punishing individuality, turning their charges into the sort of lick-spittle employees most employers want


    44. He accepted that if you put your finger in the fire you’ll get burnt, but where was the justice in punishing a simple mistake with a lifelong curse?


    45. We had the choice of calling the cops or punishing the evil people ourselves


    46. I couldn’t sustain such a punishing schedule even when I was younger


    47. ‘For a while, ragged groups of humans eked out miserable existences on useless land; fighting, worshipping their malevolent gods, punishing dissidents—carrying on as humans always have


    48. Her scowl turned more threatening as she rattled the vial with a punishing shake


    49. If the act involves force or coercion, many states prosecute the offender under the separate statutes punishing child molestation or aggravated rape


    50. In my heart, Teacher, I agree with you, but in my head I still think that if I had been Jacob, I would have enjoyed punishing those rude fellows who presumed to attack you just because they thought you would not defend yourself












































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    Synonyms for "punishing"

    arduous backbreaking grueling gruelling hard heavy laborious operose punishing toilsome

    "punishing" definitions

    resulting in punishment


    characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort