Sample Sentences for
admonition
(editor-reviewed)

Show 3 more sentences
  • •
    She offered the admonition not to underestimate the importance of religion in world affairs.
    admonition = warning or bit of advice
  • •
    I chatted politely and remembered Lindsay's admonition to chew with my mouth closed.  (source)
    admonition = advice
  • •
    "Handle with care" was the admonition scrawled on the remains of a photo album.  (source)
    admonition = warning or advice
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 3 word variations
  • •
    Next was the electrical room, where Nina's admonition that the Count touch nothing was quite unnecessary, since the metallic buzzing and sulfurous smell would have counseled caution to the most reckless of adventurers.  (source)
    admonition = warning or advice
  • •
    On the contrary, all I ever got were admonitions not to be so noisy.  (source)
    admonitions = warnings or advice
  • •
    A number of shaped sayings, words that formed triangles and tall palms, trees of life perhaps—sayings in English about the passage of the soul and the eye of God, and there were mystical eyes and admonitory hands on all four walls and the ceiling.†  (source)
  • •
    Cuffing a youth who was prying at the caravan doors, the ferryman repeated his admonition in a louder voice.  (source)
    admonition = warning or advice
  • •
    She led him out of her office and up the stone stairs, calling out instructions and admonitions to helpers and children as she passed.  (source)
    admonitions = warnings or bits of advice
  • •
    Lombard held up an admonitory finger.†  (source)
  • •
    Then his SAC's admonition came back to him.  (source)
    admonition = a warning or advice
  • •
    I sat reflecting upon what he'd said, and what weighed as heavily upon me through all of it were Claudia's strange admonitions, that this gentle-eyed young man had said to her, 'Die,' and beyond that my slowly accumulating disgust with the vampires in the ballroom above.†  (source)
  • •
    Returning suddenly to her admonitory tone, she said, dropping her voice, "If you must have a 'vent', Teddy, go and devote yourself to one of the 'pretty, modest girls' whom you do respect, and not waste your time with the silly ones."†  (source)
  • •
    They based this new rule on the admonition found in Proverbs 27:2: Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.  (source)
    admonition = advice or instruction
▲ show less (of above)