Sample sentences for ADMONITION

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Definition

a warning or bit of advice — such as "Don't drink and drive."

She has always followed the admonition that commanders of the armed services should stay out of partisan politics.

admonition = warning or bit of advice

She ignored the admonition "Don't drink and drive."

admonition = warning or bit of advice

The Shakespearean admonition "To thine own self be true" is premised on the idea that "thine own self" is good.

admonition = bit of advice

She offered the admonition not to underestimate the importance of religion in world affairs.

admonition = warning or bit of advice

On the contrary, all I ever got were admonitions not to be so noisy.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

admonitions = warnings or advice

More than once the air has been filled with the van Daans' admonitions and my saucy replies.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

admonitions = warnings or advice

...and since I'm generally considered to be the worst behaved of the three young people, it's all I can do to avoid having the same old scoldings and admonitions repeatedly flung at my head and to pretend not to hear.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

admonitions = warnings or advice

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Francis Bacon
"Shakespeare's admonition that the first thing we do is kill all the lawyers."
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
I felt perplexed: I didn't know whether it were not a proper opportunity to offer a bit of admonition.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
He settled to his repast with the charming little "table manner" that, from the day of his arrival, had relieved me of all grossness of admonition.
Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw
After a final admonition to use each needle only once and to treat the disks "the way you would raw eggs," Behrens had retired for the evening.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Miyamoto," he said, and his tone suggested admonition.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
By means of teachings, prayer, admonition?
Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha
She wondered why it kept growing in direct proportion to her self-admonitions that faith was the duty she owed him.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
The heat was almost gone out of the radiators: the cold iron fluting stern signal and admonition for sleeping, the little death, the renewal.
William Faulkner -- Absalom, Absalom!
Faith .... all faiths .... are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable ....
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
Despite Glaedr's admonition, he again whispered his true name, and once more his entire being shook from the force of the words.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
The soldiers around him stood closer, barking admonitions and threats back at him.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
The clergyman stayed to exchange a few sentences, either of admonition or reproof, with his haughty parishioner; this duty done, he too departed.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

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