Example Sentences

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“There’s a dad that’s not doing it,” she repeated — less incredulous than reproving now.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2025

People also lose coverage, however, because constantly proving and reproving eligibility is onerous — especially if you’re poor, not particularly adept at navigating red tape or don’t have stable housing.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2022

“There is no part of the country where opinion is narrower than it is here,” Mr. Brooke tells a reproving neighbor, Mrs. Cadwallader, the rector’s wife.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 21, 2019

From soccer mom reproving a child who had mislaid his lunchbox she, very briefly, became Torquemada dealing with a mentally deficient suspect.

From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2013

When I mentioned any of this to Mutti, which I did, often, she would just put her arm around me, and say with a gently reproving smile and a shrug, “Me too, Elizabeth, me too.”

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo