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Example sentences for: admonished

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Purposefully confounding future biographers, Sigmund Freud burned his early papers and admonished his wife Martha to destroy their love letters.
Though the critic Adorno admonished that poetry was impossible in the wake of Auschwitz, in a different context he also argued that art was more effectively political the less overt its politics-- pace Brecht.
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.
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen admonished critics, "It is an active family, an achieving family, and so its members have taken some chances."