Example Sentences

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The rest remained outside, and presently the whole crowd was censuring those who had accepted the invitation.

From The Idiot by Martin, Eva M.

Gladys only vaguely understood, but gathered that she was censuring the old man with the utmost severity.

From The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Swan, Annie S. (Annie Shepherd)

For rightly every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring or rather terminating my own soul.

From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

That he declared in such a tone and manner that it was clearly seen that it was all for the governor, and that he was censuring me as infamous.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 by Blair, Emma Helen