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How to use penalize in a sentence

11 example sentences · verb

Penalize means to subject to a penalty, especially for the infringement of a rule or regulation. Example: “His misplay in the bridge tournament was penalized when it was noted he'd broken the rules.”

Examples of penalize by meaning

verbTo subject to a penalty, especially for the infringement of a rule or regulation.

  • Women should not be penalized or forced out of the workplace simply because they become pregnant.2014 December 3, Editorial Board, “Supreme Court should affirm the rights of pregnant workers”, in The Los Angeles Times
  • And penalize those who would expose them to it.2017, James Emery White, Meet Generation Z
  • She is leading an effort across several states to pass legislation that penalizes “cyberflashing.”2022 June 13, Valeriya Safronova, “The Fight to End ‘Cyberflashing’”, in The New York Times

More sentences with penalize

  • His misplay in the bridge tournament was penalized when it was noted he'd broken the rules.From the entry misplay
  • Unchastity had to be penalized because, as the Bible showed, it was highly offensive to God.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 31. From the entry unchastity
  • Hand out a bonus for building on wasted brownfields and depaving asphalt ones; penalize building on greenfields.1998 October, Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back, University of California…. From the entry depave
  • It was shown that penalized regressions are usually robust and provide better accuracy than nonpenalized methods for disease prediction.2015 August 4, Taesung Park et al., “Statistical Analysis of High-Dimensional Genetic Data in Complex Traits”, in BioMed Research…. From the entry nonpenalized
  • Wall Street wants repeal of the provisions for penalizing executives (and large stockholders) who trade in their company's securities.1942 February 9, “Back to Philadelphia”, in Time. From the entry insider trading
  • If the rider is over the time allowed he or she is penalized 1⁄4 time fault for every second over the limit.2010, Bradley Berner, Blood on the Irons. From the entry time fault
  • All the researchers had to do, as lead author Fabio Urbina explained in an interview, was give a high reward score to toxicity instead of penalizing it.2023 May 25, Nabeel S. Qureshi, “Waluigi, Carl Jung, and the Case for Moral AI”, in Wired. From the entry Waluigi
  • Fearing that the mine would be closed and penalized, the mine managers organized a rescue effort by themselves and did not report the case to any relevant authorities.2022, Jie Gao, “The Fatality Quota System”, in Work Safety Regulation in China: The CCP’s Fatality Quota System (Routledge Contemporary…. From the entry Hainan

Meaning of penalize

  1. verb To subject to a penalty, especially for the infringement of a rule or regulation.
  2. verb To impose a handicap on.

Full definition of penalize

Questions about penalize in a sentence

How do you use penalize in a sentence?
Penalize is used as a verb. For example: “His misplay in the bridge tournament was penalized when it was noted he'd broken the rules.”
What is a short sentence with penalize?
“And penalize those who would expose them to it.”
What does penalize mean?
Penalize means to subject to a penalty, especially for the infringement of a rule or regulation.

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