Example sentences for: rebuked

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

  • The White House rebuked People magazine for running a cover story on Chelsea Clinton.

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

  • 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 SCMP also reported Friday that Michael Klosson, the new U.S. consul-general in Hong Kong, was rebuked by China for a speech this week in which he attacked a Chinese proposal to establish a press council in Hong Kong as a threat to media freedom and criticized Beijing's decision to prevent the pope visiting the territory.


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