Example sentences for: rebuke

How can you use “rebuke” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It will rebuke state lotteries for their deceptive marketing and will try to force them to post odds and stop targeting the poor.

  • Although the letter evidently just spells out House rules, the Washington Post said it "chastised" DeLay, and the New York Times called it a "rebuke."

  • They, too, can read and write, of course, but their “solecisms,” “barbarisms,” and “vulgarisms” call for rebuke, and what better rebuke than to treat them as if they did not belong at all—to condemn them figuratively to the outer darkness of the unlettered?

  • USA Today leads with the rebuke to Iraq likely to come from the U.N., which is also the top national story at the Los Angeles Times . The New York Times leads with Kodak's decision to cut 10,000 jobs, the biggest layoff at any American company this year.

  • Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., called the verdict "a rebuke" of Clinton and asserted that "this whole process ...


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