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Example sentences for "for the first offence"

  • Among the Wyandots of North America, "a woman guilty of adultery, for the first offence is punished by having her hair cropped; for repeated offences her left ear is cut off.

  • Among the Aleuts "theft was not only a crime but a disgrace"; for the first offence of this kind corporal punishment was inflicted, for the fourth the penalty was death.

  • If he have no promotion, he is for the first offence to suffer six months' imprisonment; and for a second, imprisonment for life.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for the first offence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for good; for nothing; for these; for they were not; for thy; for years; force and; forced himself; forced march; forced smile; forces were; foreign affairs; foreign born; foreign invasion; foreign language; foreign markets; foreign politics; foreign prince; forest fires; former birth; former page; formerly called; formerly used; fortnight since; forty yards; should live