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Example sentences for: admonished

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Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen admonished critics, "It is an active family, an achieving family, and so its members have taken some chances."
, admonished the White House.
And we were admonished that to claim empathy outside those two special areas is an enormity--a word he described as another dead word, but used anyway.
Morally stern, Adams also admonished his son to make "a good account" of himself, and continued to hector him well into his adulthood.
Well, we've both been admonished from the Slate chieftains for straying from the news of the day.