Sentence Examples:
The evils of a lax society have been rebuked in various ways.
These things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority.
In yet sharper words the king rebuked the Papal greed.
She observed and resented the childish innocence, rebuking it smartly.
Rebuked Chamberlain for "characteristic sneer," upon which Chamberlain smartly retorted.
Upon this the others warned, rebuked, threatened, remonstrated, and begged.
Rebuked Honeysuckle, gazing sorrowfully down upon the arrogant little speaker.
"Shame on you," rebuked Ellis, gulping his turnips with haste.
The old wolf rebuked his timidity with a low growl.
She deserved a little fatherly rebuke, and that she got.
His confusion revealed an ardor too profound to be rebuked or resisted.
She was keenly sensitive, and she felt an undeserved rebuke.
To rebuke presuming boldness or impudence is a different matter, of course.
"Young man, that is not seemly language," rebuked the Professor.
Is there in him any vein of ironical comment or satirical rebuke?
On one occasion he had slightly rebuked a priest for some irregularity.
This persistence annoyed her husband, and he rebuked her sternly.
"Silence; no talking with the prisoner," rebuked Corporal Cotter crisply.
He was sternly rebuked by strong protectionists for his greed.
I was stunned by the rebuke, and overwhelmed with mortification.
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority.
Their main duty was to warn, rebuke, teach, exhort, and encourage.
William is not rebuked for so shamelessly deserting his native county.
"I beg your pardon, old chap," said Lancelot, rebuked and remorseful.
The public opinion which would rebuke him is among the vanquished.
Randy looked penitent, and for a wonder accepted the rebuke quietly.
Old Pierre was vexed at being rebuked by a young man.
The motion was denied, and the mover of it emphatically rebuked.
He was not a rebuke, but a stimulus, and banished morbidity.
For he had begun, almost mechanically, to rebuke her for impertinence.
He was entirely unconscious of the rebuke administered by the smith.
Do not rebuke the application I have made of your lessons as exaggerated.
Joseph indignantly rebuked him and ordered him never to rise again.
Elder brothers are seldom remiss in rebuking the presumption of younger.
Leslie made a derisive motion as though to push further rebuke from her.
She requires to be enlightened, encouraged, stirred up, and perhaps rebuked.
He cried, nettled at his rebuke having been overheard by a stranger.
Carrie instantly brightened up, thinking he had meant it as a rebuke.
It takes more than a rebuke to make a democrat out of an aristocrat.
I felt outraged I rebuked myself for making much ado about nothing.
His words rebuked them, stung them, inflamed them with hatred.
His scathing words of rebuke brought on a second flood of tears.
A cry of rebuke swelled to her lips at his conqueror's tone.
Genuine, honest, rational love needs to be cultivated, not rebuked and repressed.
Never one word, mademoiselle, to reproach or rebuke me; never one word!
Carrie instantly brightened up, thinking he had meant it as a rebuke.
She seemed to rebuke our grief in her rapt and holy sleep.
I went out to rebuke him for his desertion of the twins.
In spite of this rebuke our mother continued serenely on her way.
An open rebuke was invariably followed by a day of insolent idleness.
Roman liberties were prostrated forever; noble sentiments and aspirations were rebuked.
"No, sir," replied Burr, whom an archangel could not have rebuked.
Had you dared, you would have rebuked me out of your cramped virtue.
So, in rebuke of the rashness of youth, spoke the caution of age.
I beseech your Majesty to address your rebuke chiefly, at least, to me.
I felt rebuked and embarrassed, and could not explain to him.
She gave him so comical a look of rebuke that he laughed outright.
"The bill is mine now," Desmond rebuked her with studied equanimity.
Once, and only once, his father tried timidly to rebuke him.
Watts rebuked her once, has known no diminution with expanding years.
For this gratuitous statement, he was strongly rebuked by the coroner.
The hypocrite is justly rebuked in his last will and testament.
The hound she had rebuked before bounded joyfully to her side.
He was rebuked by Wentworth, and answered with an impertinent gesture.
What a practical rebuke was here given to the lascivious queen of beauty.
Hector rebukes him for his weakness in putting faith in portents.
For this he was not only sharply rebuked, but also deposed.
And Barth shut his lips in plucky acceptance of the rebuke.
"Oh, money ain't everything," rebuked the "pirate" in a lordly manner.
Her own rebuke of him for assaulting Cheever had absolved him.
The King's lip writhed at that hinted rebuke, or implied consolation.
Only occasionally a poet rebukes his brethren for this carping attitude.
On the contrary, it was argumentative, cogent in explanation and in rebuke.
He rebuked and remonstrated; but punishment would have caused a public scandal.
Their barbaric and simple splendor was a rebuke to poor white women.
I spoke with studied politeness; my idea was to rebuke his rudeness.
Not rebuke, not friendliness or a lack of it, not even hatred.
The hunchback snarled his rebuke in Blaine's face and turned to Tom.
And yet she felt no resentment, no detestation, no censure, no rebuke.
Jack took this rebuke in silence, gazing soberly at the empty sky.
The corporal made a respectful obeisance and withdrew into the corridor, rebuked.
She did not think her carelessness quite justified so severe a rebuke.
He set himself to rebuke and remove the morbid bravado then prevailing.
The mysterious young woman was too much agitated to rebuke the impudence.
Williamson disapproved of ballets, utterly, and administered a rebuke on the spot.
She had also delivered a pertinent rebuke under cover of her gaiety.
Reverie may be fondled, darling nymph, without the rebuke of cold-eyed prudence.
Hardened as she was, the mute rebuke cut her to the quick.
She returned to rebuke him for yawning and to propose a remedy.
And Hassan, in the midst of his adherents, looked ill to rebuke.
It was a bit of lawlessness that Roland felt he should rebuke.
Johnnie inwardly rebuked the throb of joy which greeted this statement.
He felt a twinge of conscience at rebuking his wife, even in thought.
Said the woman, eagerly joining in the rebuke of her late boon companion.
Clytemnestra warmly rebuked him, first simulating the frown of the irritated.
"You should never judge foreigners by their appearance, Alexander," rebuked momma.
He repeated his terrible rebuke of my levity, and I began to explain.
Their superiors in the civil government have more often to rebuke undue leniency.
It was on his tongue to utter a harsh rebuke for the impertinence.
His large eyes were full of a sort of cloudy rebuke and watchfulness.