punishing

How To Use punishing In A Sentence

• As he ran past, the arquebusier shouted something about Susanoo, the kami of storms, and how he was punishing them for their arrogance. Blood Ninja II
• My boots have taken quite a punishing recently I need a new pair.
• The long punishing jaws of a borzoi can snatch up small and not-so-small varmints both wild or domestic with lightning speed.
• Walking for any distance along shingle bank is punishing on the legs. Times, Sunday Times
• The obvious antidote is not taking on such punishing workloads.
• The setter's long-haired coat easily wards off the north country's brisk autumn climate and punishing brier tangles.
• But this past year has been an especially punishing one for the country, with a drought over the summer leading to an exceptionally meagre yield of wheat, maize, sunflowers, soybeans and sugar-beet - all key crops.
• They know that forms of discipline which reward good behaviour, rather than punishing the bad, are more effective, safer and promote better relationships at home.
• The downhills were far more punishing than I thought they would be.
• The teacher was laid under the necessity of punishing the student who failed in the examination.