"punishment" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Any attempt to communicate was met with swift punishment.
- The regent administers swift punishment as the Jewish doctor is made to drink the poison.
- No one has been charged in the case but officials in the US and abroad have called for swift punishment of the four marines.
- The people who run the arena issued stern warnings for the next two days that such things are forbidden and would result in swift punishment.
- After denouncing the "separatists," the authorities promised swift punishment for anyone involved in the bombings.
- Failure to cooperate brought swift punishments, like 50 push-ups, or dining hall assignments.
- He strode toward her, hard and fast, bent on meting out swift punishment.
- He had broken custom and would have brought on him swift punishment had he been sighted.
- Any youthful dissatisfactions are usually verbally expressed, but profanity is never allowed because the guilty child can expect swift punishment.
- In the subculture of the station house, the answer to crime is swift punishment, not social work.
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