reprimand

in a sentence

I close my eyes and wait for the reprimand.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

Without a word of reprimand, she picked up my clothes from where I had tossed them at the foot of the bed, and absently draping them over the back of a chair, she said, "Stacey tells me you blame Big Ma for what happened today."  (source) Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, 1976

As I said it, I half pointed to the man in the corner, but brought my arm down quickly lest Atticus reprimand me for pointing.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

I'd never heard anyone use the word "feminism" as anything but a reprimand.†  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

...we were reprimanded...  (source) Ayn Rand, Anthem, 1937

"On the possibility of social turmoil," said Father, in his reprimanding tone that meant she was not to say any more.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play, and their talk was still of the classroom and the teacher, of books and reprimands.  (source) Shirley Jackson, The Lottery, 1948

Reprimandingly.†  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

All brutality and reprimand were wrested from her face.†  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

"What's the bag fore" snaps Yuri, smarting at having been reprimanded in front of Lale.†  (source) Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, 2018

Over the years, Mariam had learned to harden herself against his scorn and reproach, his ridiculing and reprimanding.†  (source) Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2007

As they are talking a woman across the aisle reprimands them; she's been trying to take a nap, she says.†  (source) Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake, 2003

Connor senses a reprimand on the way.†  (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007