"punishment" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He didn't know whether to laugh at her spirit or threaten her with dire punishment for it.
- For their parents had promised them dire punishments if this photograph for grandfather's birthday was less than perfect.
- If the infraction was bad enough to warrant dire punishment, they could even insist on watching it together.
- Surely he and Tristan had met with dire punishment.
- Either warrants the direst punishment of which I can conceive.
- The evil deity, unfortunately, administers a dire punishment to those who resist it.
- The food and drug agency has taken on the personality of a parent who promises dire punishments, but never follows through.
- The king angrily asked the Jewish minister to explain, threatening him with dire punishment.
- They threatened Roos with dire punishments, so that he promised to go to the King.
- Semirame nodded her agreement with such a dire punishment apparent.
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