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How to use rebuke in a sentence

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She publicized her fury at the government with a rebuke unprecedented and unrepeated in the history of the British constitutional monarchy.
He also delivered a sharp rebuke to those who argued against the day on profit grounds.
God will often use men to offer a verbal rebuke through prophecy or admonishment before disciplining us.
I opened my mouth for a sharp rebuke but just then the waitress appeared, bringing our plates of burgers and fries.
I've delivered her a stern rebuke and promised I'll be back to conduct regular inspections.
He had more expected a sharp rebuke for sleeping late, maybe even a none-too-gentle reminder in the form of a hand to his backside.
When we rebuke or expose an evil, we have the duty to hope for the redemption, not the condemnation, of the sinner.
If the committee determines a lawmaker has committed wrongdoing, it may send the lawmaker a letter of reproval, akin to a rebuke.
Our repeated failure to reprove and adequately rebuke heresy calls into serious question our theological system.
Our next study takes us to visions of Christ by the apostle Paul in which he received a severe rebuke from the heavenly Lord.
Mass mail-outs are then sent out to attract support, disseminate information and rebuke what is considered propaganda.
This source was schtummed when Julia posted a scathing rebuke on the thread, really very angry.
All the cricketing vices for which prep school masters rebuke their charges were there.
I realized that this self-abasement or internalized moralistic rebuke was what I had been writing about from the very beginning.
Essentially, they invented a form of rebuke that has no constitutional meaning, but sounds mighty fancy.
One might view Interiors as a stern rebuke for a life both unappreciated and without any sense of self-sufficiency.
What a rebuke to those who seem to thrive on naysaying, despair, division, and the past, or who are imprisoned by memories of the good old days!
These shrimp stand in silent rebuke to their unfortunate cousins that are butterflied and flattened by less sensitive restaurants.
This was the use of psychology in economics that, when it was employed by Proudhon, called forth a rebuke from Marx!
Thompson's compact book also stands as a rebuke to the hefty, overstuffed volumes lugged around by today's college calculus students.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The rebuke was too just and too pointed not to be felt, even by the bigot who had deserved it.
The most sensitive of four-footed creatures in the world, the Skye terrier is utterly abased by a rebuke from his master.
In his most impressive style he undertook to administer a solemn rebuke for the use of such words as jockey and hocus.
He shook hands with his opponent, who, stung by the rebuke, now began to sniffle.
A more insulting method of administering a rebuke could not have been devised.
She was silent at the unconscious rebuke, profoundly stirred by the paradoxicality of the situation.
The mother's manner was a crushing rebuke to the young man for his audacity.
By this tale ye may se that one ought to take hede how he rebukyth an other lest it Torne moste to his owne rebuke.
Never did rebuke so fill us with shame at our want of imagination and of poesy.
Truth to tell he realized that he merited a rebuke for his lack of observation.
Thus all the boys were exposed, and received just rebuke for their misdemeanor.
She proceeded to rebuke him severely for countenancing such a popish practice as the introduction of pictures in the churches.
Times before had he said them before Phoebe Hart, and she had passed them by with no rebuke.
Aggie sniffed vehemently in rebuke of the gross partiality of fate in his behalf.
That rebuke of Barber's seemed to deflect Cis's interest from the rooms to herself.
It was a wise, a just, and a well-deserved rebuke, but it created a sensation.
Then, he bethought himself of a subtle form of rebuke by emphasizing his generosity.
The savoir-faire which would have helped some men to take the rebuke entirely deserted him.
As he was the father, it fell to him to rebuke his son and to excommunicate him for his sin.
Blanche was too exuberantly happy at the moment to be damped by any rebuke.
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