rebuke
verb (used with object)
to express sharp, stern disapproval of; reprove; reprimand.
were rebuking
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past progressiveof rebuke.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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His jaw had not lost is pugnacious thrust, and he snapped his orders to the waiter as if he were rebuking a recruit.
From The Guns of Europe by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
Greed and a sort of religious fanaticism had brought them into the ranks of the conspirators, but their national instincts were rebuking them each moment.
From Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Tom Bevan
So taken up were they with this petty trouble that they twisted the Master's words as they fell from His lips, and thought that He was rebuking them for what they were rebuking themselves for.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren
I can!” said Barter impatiently, as though he were rebuking a schoolboy for saying the obvious.
From The Mind Master by Arthur J. Burks
Life is a very beautiful thing, my child," he said, almost as if he were rebuking her, "and the closer we come to the big heart of life the more wonderful things we find.
From Saturday's Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris
