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Example sentences for: rebuked

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