How to Use penal code in a Sentence

penal code

noun
  • Crimes of the heart and soul were omnipresent, whether or not the penal code came into play.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Two amendments to the country’s penal code have been proposed.
    — Cristina Maza, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The lawmaker doesn’t want to add his bans on workable guns and live ammo to the penal code.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • House Bill 4142 amends the state's penal code to reflect the change.
    — Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2023
  • That the dogs don’t get shot by poachers has more to do with logistics and penal codes than decency.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 6 Jan. 2014
  • The original charge was brought, not under the penal code, but under the state labor law.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Feb. 2018
  • The next day, he was charged with Section 505(A) of the penal code.
    — Victoria Milko and Kristen Gelineau, USA TODAY, 8 May 2021
  • If found guilty, Bazoum could face the death penalty, according to Niger’s penal code.
    — Time, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The penal code is based on the Italian criminal code with elements of canon law.
    — Nicole Winfield, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Egypt’s penal code is sorely in need of amendments to better protect rape and assault survivors.
    — Washington Post, 31 July 2020
  • It should be noted that the California penal code does cover all these things.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Under Iran’s penal code, the sentence carries the death penalty.
    — Nima Elbagir, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Robbery by threat is a second-degree felony, according to the Texas penal code.
    — Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The other charge is under the penal code and is usually referred to as treason or sedition.
    — Grant Peck, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
  • A week ago Jansen said arrests would be under a state penal code section banning obscene matter in the state.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2020
  • This is the offense charged under the aforementioned section 371 of the penal code.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Jewell is depicted as an eager-to-please mailroom clerk in Bryant's law office who reads dry penal codes in his free time.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The Texas penal code recognizes an unborn child as a person, but the state's transportation code doesn't.
    — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 11 July 2022
  • The New York penal code allows judges to consider prison terms of one year or less for first-time fraud offenders.
    — Brian Bennett, TIME, 29 May 2024
  • The charges filed against Gonzales are a state jail felony, the lowest-level felony under the Texas penal code.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Patterson argued his bill drew from terms in the penal code and hammered out in a previous Supreme Court case.
    — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • One of the items seized from the storage unit, Carrillo said, was a copy of California’s penal code.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Richards appointed him to a state commission that rewrote parts of the state’s penal code that would send offenders to the facilities.
    — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2020
  • To that end, the book includes advocacy tools as well as penal codes, laws, and rights pertaining to reproductive rights.
    — Victoria Law, Washington Post, 6 May 2026
  • More signs listing the specific hours of closure and the relevant state penal code are to come, Carpenter said.
    — Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The real sticky wicket in the Texas penal code, though, is not the bribery section but the one about abuse of official capacity.
    — Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The state’s penal code recognizes a fetus as a person, but the Texas Transportation Code does not.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 July 2022
  • While the state’s penal code recognizes a fetus as a person, the Texas Transportation Code does not.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 9 July 2022
  • While the state's penal code recognizes a fetus as a person, the Texas Transportation Code does not.
    — Timothy Bella, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022
  • Under Iran’s penal code, his sentence could carry the death penalty if proven that the accused had used a firearm, otherwise he could be sentenced to prison.
    — Alex Stambaugh, CNN, 13 Dec. 2022

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