remonstrate
verb (used with object)
to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
have remonstrated
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present perfectof remonstrate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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I would have remonstrated with him on this horrible cruelty, but he had the wagon back in his yard before I could reach him.”
From A Chosen Few Short Stories by Frank Richard Stockton
Mary would have remonstrated with him as to the rashness of his conduct—she would have told him what she knew.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.
From Recitations for the Social Circle by James Clarence Harvey
"Perhaps I will when I come back," he thought, and then limped softly forward, glad that he met no one who would have remonstrated against his hazardous venture.
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.
From Eighth Reader by James Baldwin
