How to Use penalize in a Sentence

penalize

verb

• The hockey player was penalized for holding.
• The company was penalized for not paying taxes.
• This law would unfairly penalize immigrants.
• The Rams were penalized twice on the play when Hunter got hit.
  — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
• But most games penalize you for failing and force you to do the same thing again.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
• Even if a player isn’t penalized, he could still be fined by the league.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2024
• Hadley was even penalized a point during the fight for two eye pokes.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
• The 49ers were penalized six times for 83 yards, Green Bay only once for five yards.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024
• When the music is not perfect, the show gets penalized.
  — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2023
• The bill would not penalize women who take or obtain the pills.
  — David W. Chen, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• That led the board to penalize Posey with a 60-day suspension.
  — Jeremy Gorner, chicagotribune.com, 5 Jan. 2022
• Failure to report could be penalized by up to 14 years in prison.
  — Kanis Leung, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2024
• Be sure to check with your vendor to make sure you won’t be penalized for paying off the loan early.
  — Paris Goodman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 June 2025
• These men teach you not to be kind, not to trust people or let your guard down—and then you're penalized for not being nice.
  — TIME, 7 May 2024
• Or penalize rather than reward kickers who just kick it through the end zone?
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
• After a 3-yard gain by Presley Fant, Boaz was penalized for clipping, moving the ball back to the 18.
  — al, 9 Sep. 2023
• Pospisil was driving to the net and was hauled down by the Ducks’ Radko Gudas, who was penalized for holding.
  — Staff and News Service Reports, Oc Register, 3 Apr. 2025
• Mapu was penalized for the hit and Waddle did not return before the game was over . . .
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• The Eagles have only been penalized three times for 25 yards.
  — Owen Hayes, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2025
• The Rams were penalized for having 12 men on the field near the conclusion of the Steelers’ game-winning scoring drive.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• And my deepest hope is that my actions don’t penalize my team.
  — Randi Richardson, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2022
• Shesterkin was penalized two minutes for leaving the goalie's crease.
  — Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2025
• Young said customers who were unable to make a payment due to the outage will not be penalized.
  — Yasmeen Saadi, The Indianapolis Star, 19 July 2024
• Golf fans everywhere were up in arms as the debate raged about whether Clark should be penalized.
  — William Lambers, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025
• The school had been severely penalized twice in a decade by the NCAA for rules violations.
  — Brian O'Keefe, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2024
• But this isn’t set up to gouge anybody or penalize anybody.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Aug. 2020
• Dustin Johnson, with a one-shot lead playing the final hole at Whistling Straits, is penalized two strokes for grounding his club in a bunker on the last hole.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• Your husband’s stance on this is irrational and will serve no purpose other than to penalize the boy -- and both of you.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 13 Dec. 2020
• And this is the first finals matchup involving two teams who don’t pay a luxury tax, a measure instituted in 2002 that penalizes teams financially for spending above a set threshold.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 4 June 2025
• Software tools will continue to advance in this area, leveraging AI and machine learning to credit and penalize their models on a continuous basis to increase accuracy.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC news, 11 June 2025