How to Use penal code in a Sentence

penal code

noun

• The next day, he was charged with Section 505(A) of the penal code.
  — Victoria Milko and Kristen Gelineau, USA TODAY, 8 May 2021
• House Bill 4142 amends the state's penal code to reflect the change.
  — Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2023
• Crimes of the heart and soul were omnipresent, whether or not the penal code came into play.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 13 Apr. 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
• The proposed penal code, if passed, would usher in a raft of sweeping new laws.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 25 Sep. 2019
• This is the offense charged under the aforementioned section 371 of the penal code.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 1 Nov. 2017
• If found guilty, Bazoum could face the death penalty, according to Niger’s penal code.
  — Time, 14 Aug. 2023
• Two amendments to the country’s penal code have been proposed.
  — Cristina Maza, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2018
• The charge is always the same, a violation of Paragraph 175 of the German penal code.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• The original charge was brought, not under the penal code, but under the state labor law.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• The penal code is based on the Italian criminal code with elements of canon law.
  — Nicole Winfield, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Under Iran’s penal code, the sentence carries the death penalty.
  — Nima Elbagir, CNN, 23 Dec. 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 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, BostonGlobe.com, 9 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
• 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
• Civil-rights groups supporting Gamble say the U.S. penal code has grown too vast.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2018
• 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
• New signs listing the hours when the station is closed to the public and the relevant state penal code are posted around the site, including on a pole near the wooded slope.
  — Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 19 Sep. 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 case sparked weeks of outrage in the North African kingdom, with many speaking out in defense of press freedoms and others asking for reforms to the penal code.
  — Aida Alami, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2019
• But the new laws were largely based on India’s penal code, drafted by British colonialists more than 200 years ago.
  — Michelle Jana Chan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• In 1973, the law was transferred from the Texas penal code to the state’s civil statutes and deemed unenforceable after Roe was decided.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 27 June 2022
• 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
• The other charge is under the penal code and is usually referred to as treason or sedition.
  — Grant Peck, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
• Théo is past the age of consent, but the relationship is incestuous, legally speaking, thanks to a change in the French penal code in 2021.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
• In 2022, there was a notable increase in the number of articles of the penal code dealing with political crimes.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 17 May 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024