Punishing is an English word with synonyms like arduous or toilsome. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Punishing in a sentence
Related words
Punishing meaning
- That punishes physically and/or mentally; arduous, gruelling, demanding.
- Debilitating, harsh.
Synonyms of Punishing
Using Punishing
- The main meaning on this page is: That punishes physically and/or mentally; arduous, gruelling, demanding. | Debilitating, harsh.
- Useful related words include: arduous, toilsome, operose, laborious.
- In the example corpus, punishing often appears in combinations such as: punishing the, of punishing, and punishing.
Context around Punishing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Punishing
- In this selection, "punishing" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, craft, five, numerous, passers, difficulty and musk stand out and add context to how "punishing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alike and punishing them as and benefits of punishing conditions at. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "punishing" sits close to words such as ambiguity, automaker and canadiens, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with punishing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
By punishing them for being women. (6 words)
A world wide credit default that caused a punishing recession. (10 words)
A conference would distract the people from punishing a bumbling ruling party. (12 words)
Crosby, on his never-ending quest for peak performance, doesn’t take any detours, committing completely to his craft: Punishing passers and ball carriers alike — and punishing them as well in this his fifth season as any other defensive player in the NFL. (43 words)
But Magistrate Campbell said a recent report from the ACT Inspector of Correctional Services showed it was “all too clear that the AMC is yet to live up to its lofty ambitions of rehabilitating rather than punishing prisoners”. (38 words)
High reload times coupled with a punishing damage falloff at range have hampered the archetype through much of 's run, and players were optimistic with the mid-season patches damage buff that hand cannons would mount a comeback. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Crosby, on his never-ending quest for peak performance, doesn’t take any detours, committing completely to his craft: Punishing passers and ball carriers alike — and punishing them as well in this his fifth season as any other defensive player in the NFL.
A conference would distract the people from punishing a bumbling ruling party.
A fairly successful roguelike, the 2016 game has many of the genre's standard tropes, including punishing difficulty and level-reset following a death.
Although not as punishing as the Valkyries, players may still question whether fighting the Berserkers is worth it due to their significant challenge.
And while Darcy and Sonnefield understandably make the case about punishing Musk for his hate, politicians and others run from accountability to the continued systemic racism toward African Americans.
Another Polunsky inmate, Ronald Prible, writing in support of Young’s bid for clemency, recalled an incident when guards were punishing the person in the adjacent cell by denying food.
A world wide credit default that caused a punishing recession.
Brown was a punishing, once-in-a-lifetime running back who saw more in his journey than football and the cutthroat business it was becoming.
But Australia’s calculations with regard to the facility are no longer about punishing maritime asylum seekers.
But Magistrate Campbell said a recent report from the ACT Inspector of Correctional Services showed it was “all too clear that the AMC is yet to live up to its lofty ambitions of rehabilitating rather than punishing prisoners”.
But the task over five punishing sets was too formidable, and the result cast a gloom over an otherwise glorious day of sunshine and tennis at Wimbledon.
By punishing them for being women.
Deterrence – by punishing someone, you deter that person and others from committing similar crimes.
During one of Kevin McCarthy's gauntlet of punishing votes, it was striking to see with whom he passed the time.
FairFuel UK accused Mr Khan of punishing drivers to pursue his "misinformed green pipedream".
Gatland’s men look set to reap the benefits of punishing conditions at training camps in Switzerland and Turkey.
Grisham is punishing only law-abiding gun owners, and she’s doing so deliberately.
Hachi's gambit may have cost him his hand, yet there was no one else capable of defeating Barragan in a safer manner on account of his punishing dark miasma.
Hancock was subjected to numerous punishing and disgusting tasks while taking part, including being made to eat a camel’s penis and being covered in creepy crawlies.
High reload times coupled with a punishing damage falloff at range have hampered the archetype through much of 's run, and players were optimistic with the mid-season patches damage buff that hand cannons would mount a comeback.
Common combinations with punishing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- punishing the 17×
- of punishing 16×
- and punishing 12×
- punishing them 8×
- by punishing 6×
- is punishing 6×
- the punishing 6×
- in punishing 5×
- punishing sanctions 5×
- punishing you 4×