Sample sentences for REMONSTRATE

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Definition

argue, complain, or criticize

In Shakespeare's time, remonstrance was used as a synonym for display, revelation, or manifestation.

When she has a complaint with her staff, she will remonstrate quietly and in private.

remonstrate = criticize or argue

The lawyers will remonstrate that we're starting without a written agreement, but we trust each other.

remonstrate = criticize

Henry wished to dissuade me, but seeing me bent on this plan, ceased to remonstrate.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

remonstrate = argue, complain, or criticize

In fact, during the strikes I was often in the position of remonstrating with some of my more wayward colleagues who did not want to abide by our agreement.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom

remonstrating = arguing in protest or opposition

he immediately wrote her a letter of unqualified disapproval and remonstrance.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening

remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition

Dorothea quietly persisted in spite of remonstrance and persuasion.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch

remonstrance = argument in opposition

But as all my remonstrances produced no effect upon Queequeg,
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition

"Wait till some other time, I—I don't want to—"
But her remonstrance came too late; Mandy had yanked her forward and was performing the introduction...
Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory

remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition

But at first chance Hamilton commenced to "remonstrate" against the mission to France.
David McCullough -- John Adams

remonstrate = argue, complain, or criticize

remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition

She might object, remonstrate, shed tears, talk of his being too old, and plead that her life would be rendered miserable.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby

remonstrate = argue, complain, or criticize

And yet he has played her faithful lapdog ever since, never remonstrating, never accusing, never confronting her with his feelings.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones

remonstrating = arguing in protest or opposition

And, in spite of all remonstrances and advices to the contrary, King Pelles struggled out of his costly robe, which he popped over Lancelot's head.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King

remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition

I shrugged my shoulders, however, and rested silent, for Van Helsing had a way of going on his own road, no matter who remonstrated.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition

His mind remonstrated with him over this thought, that part of his mind trained by his mother and his church.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains

remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition

The other two were remonstrating with the one who had let us go.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist

remonstrating = arguing in protest

...they had plundered and stripped the inhabitants, totally ruining some poor families, besides insulting, abusing, and confining the people if they remonstrated.
Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition

Indeed, Professor McGonagall sank back into her chair at the staff table after a few feeble remonstrances and...
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition

remonstrated = protested

Adam remonstrated, "What are you getting upset about?"
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden

remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition

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