PENAL in a Sentence

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For PENAL, below is one of 15 sentences:
The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life.

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 Meanings and Examples of PENAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
penal
 a.  subject to punishment by law
Classic Sentence:
1  There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when the penal laws decree a shipwreck.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
2  The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling their condemned.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS
3  At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for life.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
4  He underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
5  The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
6  Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the subject of those whom the law strikes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
7  I'd make it penal, leaving litter.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
Example Sentence:
1  After his experience in jail , he has a pretty jaundiced view of the penal system.
2  Many people believe that execution has no place in the penal system of a civilized society.
3  The idea of penal sanction is the essence of law.
4  Two students were penalized very differently for the same offence.
5  Speeding on city streets is penalized.
6  People who drive when they are drunk should be heavily penalized.
7  Earlier this week EU governments voted to bend the rules o that France and Germany wouldn't be penalized for breaking the rules on budget deficits.
8  Earlier this week EU governments voted to bend the rules of the stability pact so that France and Germany wouldn't be penalized for breaking the rules on budget deficits.