Sample Sentences foradmonish (auto-selected)
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"It must be so peaceful there, Martha, so safe, so secure." "But it's not a retreat from the world," the voice answered, a gentle admonishment in the words. "It's not simply a place to hide, Louise. You know that. Otherwise, there would be no point in being here, would there?" (source)admonishment = expression of disagreement (disapproval)
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While helping Aunt Wee move across the country, she admonished him for his earlier alcoholism and asked why they rarely had the chance to talk. (source)admonished = expressed disapproval
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"Do your homework and don't tell stories and you might become like your brother Dennis," Mommy admonished. (source)admonished = advised
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I have heard numerous southern religious leaders admonish their worshipers to comply with a desegregation decision because it is the law, (source)admonish = advise
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"I don't want him to grow soft playing baseball," he admonished. (source)admonished = expressed disapproval
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He told the story only to papa, who admonished him not to repeat it. (source)admonished = warned or advised
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"Harald asks the questions here," a man's gruff voice admonished. (source)admonished = expressed disapproval; or warned or advised
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GEORGE (Admonishing): Tut, tut, tut. (source)Admonishing = expressing disapproval
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She didn't admonish him at all, which, as you know, was highly unusual.† (source)
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Mrs. Nightwing's admonishment brings a flush to my cheeks. (source)admonishment = expression of disapproval
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It was impossible to make out what Spencer and Earl said to him back there, but Lonnie needed more instructions or admonishments than his partner.† (source)
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Lale admonishes himself for not having made friends with his block companions sooner.† (source)
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Tyrone frowns admonishingly.† (source)
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Could he, for an instant, have supposed that, in my admonisher at Eton—in the destroyer of my honor at Oxford,—in him who thwarted my ambition at Rome, my revenge at Paris, my passionate love at Naples, or what he falsely termed my avarice in Egypt,—that in this, my arch-enemy and evil genius, could fall to recognise the William Wilson of my school boy days,—the namesake, the companion, the rival,—the hated and dreaded rival at Dr. Bransby's?† (source)
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Admonish'd thus, and seiz'd with mortal fright, The queen provides companions of her flight: They meet, and all combine to leave the state, Who hate the tyrant, or who fear his hate.† (source)
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And when the Civill Soveraign is an Infidel, every one of his own Subjects that resisteth him, sinneth against the Laws of God (for such as are the Laws of Nature,) and rejecteth the counsell of the Apostles, that admonisheth all Christians to obey their Princes, and all Children and Servants to obey they Parents, and Masters, in all things.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-es", so that where they said "She admonisheth" in older English, today we say "She admonishes."
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