Sentence examples for commonly meted from inspiring English sources

This discipline is commonly meted out through slaps, beatings, thumping and pinches.

As members of the Revolutionary Command Council and the Council of Ministers made their way to the microphones, none of them appeared to have the courage, or even the instinct, to say anything that might earn them the opprobrium of Mr. Hussein, and, perhaps, the cruel punishment -- commonly, execution -- meted out to anyone who remotely challenged the Iraqi leader.

So punishments were meted.

Brutal punishment is meted out for malingering.

How would you describe the degree of fines, the punishments meted out or not meted out?

Drogba meted out the punishment.

The latest beating was meted out on Wednesday, he said.

Once fines, if meted out at all, were derisory.

The violence meted out to him, however, did.

Now the Geneva body has also meted out punishment.

It was meted out in Philadelphia Tuesday when Msgr.