Example sentences for: rebuked

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

  • Pride is rebuked as, Fancies she was brought up in Court, pigs one end and she t'other!

  • I speak feelingly, for I was caught once in this particular trap, as shown by the article on hawser in my `Etymological Dictionary,' for which I was promptly rebuked by Mr. Wedgwood in 1882 (twenty-seven years ago); and that is why I so fully recanted my heresy in the `Supplement';.

  • When reports about McCain's bad temper first emerged out of Arizona this fall, they indicated that he had muscled, rebuked, punished, and cowed fellow Republicans in order to squelch dissent.

  • The ousted Likud Party, which tried to form a coalition with Barak but was rebuked, accused the former general of being autocratic.

  • The subtle theories: Dole is running because the country is ready for a woman, Ashcroft is bowing out because the 1998 elections rebuked his religious right constituency, and McCain is running because conservatives like his Vietnam heroism and moderates like his positions on tobacco and campaign reform.


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