Sample Sentences for
remonstrate
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    Finally Haie stood Himmelstoss on his feet again and gave one last personal remonstrance.  (source)
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    There was a long, nagging argument that went round and round, with shouts, whines, tears, remonstrances, bargainings.  (source)
    remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
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    "I am a mortal," Scrooge remonstrated, "and liable to fall."  (source)
    remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
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    She saw her father's face, with its bold brow, and reverend white beard that flowed over the old-fashioned Elizabethan ruff; her mother's, too, with the look of heedful and anxious love which it always wore in her remembrance, and which, even since her death, had so often laid the impediment of a gentle remonstrance in her daughter's pathway.  (source)
    remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
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    "You shall not make a guy of yourself," remonstrated Meg,  (source)
    remonstrated = argued or protested
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    But as all my remonstrances produced no effect upon Queequeg,  (source)
    remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
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    She wondered why Pete saw fit to remonstrate with the woman, pleading for forgiveness with his eyes.  (source)
    remonstrate = argue (present reasons in opposition)
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    The clerk crossed back to the desk, where a ... woman ... was remonstrating loudly.  (source)
    remonstrating = arguing in protest or opposition
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    TYRONE Remonstrates gently.†  (source)
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    LOMAX [still remonstrant] But really, don't you know!†  (source)
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    The letter itself was virtually endless in length, overwritten, teaching, repetitious, opinionated, remonstrative, condescending, embarrassing—and filled, to a surfeit, with affection.  (source)
    remonstrative = (written) in a manner that argues in protest or opposition
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    "But when she saw the good that might come of staying—" said Dorothea, remonstrantly, looking at Lydgate as if he had forgotten the reasons which had just been considered.†  (source)
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    I let her get clear of the place and was about to follow—the rooms were nearly empty—when I heard a voice at the turnstile I had not heard for many years, an unforgettable self-taught stammer, a sharp cadence of remonstration.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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