Sample Sentences for
rebuke
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  • I would not judge nor rebuke them.  (source)
    rebuke = criticize
  • But Sylvia does not speak after all, though the old grandmother fretfully rebukes her, and the young man's kind, appealing eyes are looking straight in her own.  (source)
    rebukes = criticizes severely
  • Piggy gave up the attempt to rebuke Ralph.†  (source)
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  • After her father's rebuke she developed an even keener appetite for eggs.†  (source)
  • "Why, Judith," Mercy rebuked her gently.†  (source)
  • The Lord has a few choice rebukes for me to give them professors.†  (source)
  • You are spoiled girls, she twinkled, as if rebuking a kitten.†  (source)
  • Ah, how is it possible for the untaught heart to keep its faith, unswerving, in the face of dire misrule, and palpable, unrebuked injustice?†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrebuked means not and reverses the meaning of rebuked. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • "Anne Shirley!" said Marilla rebukingly.†  (source)
  • And so I may never come to her presence, but as I suffer her knights to take me, and but if I did so that I might have a sight of her, I had been dead long or this time; and yet fair word had I never of her, but when I am brought to-fore her she rebuketh me in the foulest manner.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She rebuketh" in older English, today we say "She rebukes."
  • This is a soldier's kiss: rebukeable, And worthy shameful check it were, to stand On more mechanic compliment; I'll leave thee Now like a man of steel.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" in rebukeable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
  • Roy expected a mild rebuke, but his mother only smiled.†  (source)
  • The stern look of Mary Magdalene rebuked them; her former line of work and her harsh reformation shamed them.†  (source)
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There is none but he Whose being I do fear: and under him, My genius is rebuked; as, it is said, Mark Antony's was by Caesar.  (source)
rebuked = checked
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