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punishment intended as a warning to others
they decided to make an example of him
How To Use object lesson In A Sentence
- The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
- It was an object lesson in how to use television as a means of persuasion.
- The way ants work is an object lesson in order and organization.
- The share price performance is an object lesson on what happens when a star performer disappoints. Times, Sunday Times
- The uncluttered arrangements make a perfect fit with Haggard's direct and soulful singing - an object lesson all round.
- Other races were infantilised or barbarised, or held up as object lessons in the perils of racial degeneration.
- Ray posits that this miracle is an object lesson for the disciples.
- Christ's dealing with the young man is presented as an object lesson.
- Let this accident be an object lesson in the dangers of drinking and driving.
- Read Roger: An object lesson in metaphorical consonance An object lesson in metaphorical consonance