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  1. List of paraphrases for "punishes":

    penalizes, penalises, criminalizes, represses, suppresses

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#122698penalizes
#191648criminalizes
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How to use punishes in a sentence?

  1. Serigne Mbaye:

    His image at night when we were on the boat always haunts me, the sole fact that he is dead and I’m alive is because of an unjust law that condemns and punishes us. Some of us make it. Some can spend 20 years in a vicious circle without papers.

  2. Brad Edwards:

    Any jury assessing this starts with, what amount of money punishes him given his net worth? even if you said $20 million, you're talking about a fraction of his net worth.

  3. John Steinbeck:

    The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

  4. Marvin Hier:

    I'm delighted and I think it's the right thing to do, as I've said before, for those who say it's a form of collective punishment that also punishes their families, that's the problem of the Nazi who lied about his past and not our problem.

  5. Goa Kerle:

    Wrong always rewards, never punishes while right does both. When wrong rewards, that's right punishing.

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