How to Use corporal punishment in a Sentence

corporal punishment

noun
  • This is the state where corporal punishment is still legal and widely used.
    — Kyle Whitmire | [email protected], al, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Croke said corporal punishment was already banned in public schools.
    — Jim Talamonti | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Despite the shift, corporal punishment was used 4,300 times in the state last year.
    — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
  • So places where parents continue to use corporal punishment at high rates may also support its use in schools.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The court said that the officer’s actions were akin to corporal punishment, which is legal in Texas.
    — Clare Amari, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • Oklahoma is among the 19 states where corporal punishment is still legal in public schools.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Some examples are counts of students disciplined by schools’ use of corporal punishment or out-of-school suspension.
    — Erica Frankenberg, The Conversation, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The report also discovered that teachers in some yeshivas had used corporal punishment.
    — Eliza Shapiro, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Vancouver had been a forceful captain at sea, maligning much of his crew through his ill temper and liberal use of corporal punishment.
    — Corbin Reiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The terminology of 'paddling' fails to capture the injustice that rests at the heart of corporal punishment.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • In many instances, corporal punishment is legal in Tennessee schools.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 22 Mar. 2024
  • According to the letter, corporal punishment is allowed in 23 states.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • There is also concern about disabled children and children of color being the most targeted by corporal punishment.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The Times articles sparked debate among officials over corporal punishment laws.
    — Eliza Shapiro, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Many operated like military training camps where children were subject to abuse, neglect and corporal punishment.
    — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The latest citation for the center, dated on March 11, notes that a caregiver used corporal punishment against a child.
    — Lina Ruiz may 14, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026
  • The losers of the impromptu brawls would then suffer corporal punishment at Leiva’s hands, prosecutors alleged.
    — James Queallystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Both children were subjected to strict corporal punishment, prosecutors said.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Florida has changed how corporal punishment can be used in its public schools, requiring parents to give approval before the practice is administered.
    — Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The center would train professionals how to properly investigate child abuse and teach parents ways to parent that don’t involve corporal punishment.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2025
  • Yet state legislation proposing to ban corporal punishment continues to face resistance.
    — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Yet sadly, when one’s entire career is built on such an efficient way of offing another who is (or isn’t) guilty, and that disappears, other forms of corporal punishment don’t satisfy in the same way.
    — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • West’s mother was a demanding perfectionist, and his father, although a gregarious, outgoing man, had a short fuse and was a firm believer in corporal punishment.
    — Mike Kupper, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
  • Among those arrests is one in July 2021 on suspicion of battery and cruel or inhuman corporal punishment against a child, according to court records.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • Still, Oklahoma lawmakers opposing the bill argued that corporal punishment is needed to maintain classroom order.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Across the country, media reports of corporal punishment also cite instances of severe physical injury and at least one fatality in December.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Incidents of corporal punishment are searingly described and impossible to forget.
    — Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • Catonsville author Tara Ebersole’s first foray into fiction writing drew her deep into researching corporal punishment in education.
    — Lillian Reed, Baltimore Sun, 27 Feb. 2023
  • India Kashmir banned corporal punishment in schools in response to the advocacy of mental health professionals and their reports of children requiring care after being punished at school.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Over time, more and more states have abolished corporal punishment—only two states had abolished corporal punishment in 1977—but this injustice requires national action.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025

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