Example sentences for: reprimand

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

  • Perhaps USA Today is the realest: "It's also unclear whether the Senate will formally reprimand Clinton once he's acquitted."

  • Two producers were cut loose, another resigned, and bigfoot CNN correspondent Peter Arnett, was, according to the Post , "given a stern reprimand" by the CNN chairman.

  • Ingeniously rewarding and unusually contingent on the intellectual curiosity of the reader, it offers a playful reprimand to anyone who assumes that they know where the "real" story of this novel begins and ends.

  • In a tone of disbelief, Schieffer told CBS viewers, "The trial ended without even a verbal reprimand from the Senate."

  • An interesting example of a derivative from the passive gerundive that has acquired a quasi-active meaning is reprimand from reprimendus , `one who is to be repressed.


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