Example sentences for: rebuked

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

  • 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';.

  • USAT 's second lead reports that after a landmark study finding multiple SIDS deaths within families was rebuked in the leading medical journal that originally published it, police in Boston, Chicago and Minneapolis have reopened dozens of SIDS cases.

  • 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.

  • Harper's magazine in 1955 rebuked a government official for using re-think , and another publication pilloried the monstrous verb unfreeze in 1933.

  • French voters rebuked the center-right government of President Jacques Chirac.


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