"punish" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In ancient India, a sudra could be horribly punished for the crime of learning the Vedas; and in Rome, the Twelve Tablets were published only in response to "demands of the people".
- Almost 60 years ago, he managed to make a comedy about a perky young small-town blonde who goes out one night to dance with soldiers, gets blackout-level drunk, wakes up pregnant and isn't punished horribly.
- Any strong emotion was eventually punished, horribly punished.
- But accidents could happen, and in any case Kareena might be horribly punished for his stubbornness.
- The demigod who gives humankind the gift of fire only, in return, to be horribly punished by the gods.
- They were horribly punished, and he is injured in some way.
- The film, which made his reputation, is a rarity: the story of a woman with a healthy sexual appetite who isn't thrown in front of a train or otherwise horribly punished at the end.
- What crime could the man have committed, to be so horribly punished?
- "This brings back disagreeable memories of '72-73, when university money managers were seized by a rapture that led them into excess risk, and they were punished horribly in '74."
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