Example Sentences

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Today’s street paintings contain dispatches that proliferate across the city sphere — lovely, challenging, angry, remonstrative and even desperate.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2020

Soviet spokesmen at the U.N. and in Moscow stress that his main purpose there will be more remonstrative than comradely.

From Time Magazine Archive

They know from experience that I burst into tears at the first harsh or remonstrative word.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

The letter itself was virtually endless in length, overwritten, teaching, repetitious, opinionated, remonstrative, condescending, embarrassing—and filled, to a surfeit, with affection.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

George Coney drew the bag from his pocket, but not without a few remonstrative shakes of the head, and put it in the drawer.

From The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 2 (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry