remonstrate
verb (used with object)
to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
had remonstrated
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past perfectof remonstrate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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They said they had remonstrated with some of them.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2021
Late last winter some of her friends had remonstrated with her.
From Time Magazine Archive
His father, he remembered, had remonstrated with him, and had said that by giving up sketching he was sacrificing a great resource of recreation and amusement.
From Beside Still Waters by Arthur Christopher Benson
Apparently Burghley had remonstrated with him, in the manner of experienced men of the world, against forsaking a certain road and avenue to preferment in favour of any course rare and unaccustomed.
From The Mystery of Francis Bacon by William T. Smedley
In the matrimonial cause he had remonstrated in private with his predecessor.
From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude
