How to use "penal" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "penal" in popular movie and book plots

  • Dredd is taken to the Aspen penal colony via airship, where he sits next to Herman.  - Judge Dredd (film)
  • The Bursacs are to help a man escape from the penal colony at Devil's Island.  - To Have and Have Not (film)
  • Kammerer gets captured and is assigned to a penal battalion that is supposed to lead the invasion of the North.  - Prisoners of Power
  • A transfer order is sent to the prison to send Irma to a penal colony in Algeria.  - Les Vampires
  • Sam made a false confession to save her, and was sent to the penal colony in Australia.  - Under Capricorn
  • After they arrive, Picard challenges Troi about her claim to be captain of the Essex, and she reveals that the moon is a penal colony.  - Power Play (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  • The finale introduces the Prison Planet, a teleport world used as a penal colony.  - Shadow Raiders
  • They end up in a penal battalion disarming land mines.  - Stalingrad (1993 film)
  • The first planet was a penal colony; it is now many independent kleptocratic despotisms preying on each other.  - The Great Explosion
  • In 1933 he is sentenced to life imprisonment within the penal system in French Guiana.  - Papillon (film)
  • Meanwhile, Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) directs Enterprise to a mining penal colony within the Expanse.  - The Xindi
  • Too highly decorated to face a firing squad, Steiner and his men were allowed to transfer to a penal unit in the Channel Islands.  - The Eagle Has Landed
  • Small got penal servitude on the Andaman Islands, and after twenty years he overheard that John Sholto had lost money gambling.  - The Sign of the Four
  • The epilogue tells of how Raskolnikov is sentenced to eight years of penal servitude in Siberia, where Sonya follows him.  - Crime and Punishment
  • The king commutes his sentence to penal servitude for life.  - Les Misérables
  • He was also in charge of the Wehrmacht penal system, and controlled the development of Wehrmacht armaments until January 1945.  - Heinrich Himmler

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