How To Use Punishingly In A Sentence

• Infrastructure improvements are punishingly expensive and desperately needed in a place where, for instance, people travel by boat or plane because there are no roads connecting towns.
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• In one respect, anti-inflationary conditions are already punishingly tight. Times, Sunday Times
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• Punishingly high gasoline prices have come down, potentially damping the public's willingness to embrace alternative - fuel vehicles.
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• Evenings are cool, and it's misty at daybreak, but by midday the sun can still be punishingly hot.
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• Punishingly high gasoline prices have come down, potentially damping the public's willingness to embrace alternative - fuel vehicles.
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