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.
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The Rams were penalized twice on the play when Hunter got hit.
—Julianne McShane, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
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But most games penalize you for failing and force you to do the same thing again.
—Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
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Even if a player isn’t penalized, he could still be fined by the league.
—Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2024
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Hadley was even penalized a point during the fight for two eye pokes.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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The 49ers were penalized six times for 83 yards, Green Bay only once for five yards.
—Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024
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When the music is not perfect, the show gets penalized.
—Billboard Italy, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2023
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The bill would not penalize women who take or obtain the pills.
—David W. Chen, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
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That led the board to penalize Posey with a 60-day suspension.
—Jeremy Gorner, chicagotribune.com, 5 Jan. 2022
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Failure to report could be penalized by up to 14 years in prison.
—Kanis Leung, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2024
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The players were found to have possessed drugs, and Svare and Klein were penalized for lax oversight.
—Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2020
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The players were found to have possessed drugs, and Mr. Svare and Klein were penalized for lax oversight.
—Richard Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2020
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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
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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
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Or penalize rather than reward kickers who just kick it through the end zone?
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
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After a 3-yard gain by Presley Fant, Boaz was penalized for clipping, moving the ball back to the 18.
—al, 9 Sep. 2023
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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
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Mapu was penalized for the hit and Waddle did not return before the game was over . . .
—Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
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The Eagles have only been penalized three times for 25 yards.
—Owen Hayes, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2025
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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
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And my deepest hope is that my actions don’t penalize my team.
—Randi Richardson, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2022
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Shesterkin was penalized two minutes for leaving the goalie's crease.
—Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2025
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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
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Golf fans everywhere were up in arms as the debate raged about whether Clark should be penalized.
—William Lambers, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025
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The school had been severely penalized twice in a decade by the NCAA for rules violations.
—Brian O'Keefe, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2024
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But this isn’t set up to gouge anybody or penalize anybody.
—Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Aug. 2020
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Under the law, app store operators like Apple and Google and internet service providers would be penalized for supporting TikTok.
—Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 17 June 2025
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Rules about Greenlandic children born out of wedlock strongly penalized children with unmarried parents.
—Morten Høi Jensen, The Dial, 19 June 2025
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