Example Sentences

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It appeared clear to Elder that the presidential candidate was reproaching the journalist out for waffling on an important story.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2021

Soon she was reproaching him for paying too much attention to other women, and writing angry letters to feminine friends she suspected of trying to steal him from her.

From Time Magazine Archive

His daughter Barbara was reproaching him for writing ridiculous letters to the newspapers.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

She was reproaching him for some imagined neglect.

From Jasper Lyle by Ward, Harriet

My mother was having a scene with my father; she was reproaching him with something, while he, as his habit was, maintained a polite and chilly silence, and soon left her.

From The Torrents of Spring by Garnett, Constance