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!

  • In later years, when Rockefeller was rebuked for his tyrannies, he sang the monopolist's equivalent of "Onward Christian Soldiers": "It was right before me and my God.

  • 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.

  • 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';.

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


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