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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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
And so it seems," said Araminta with a sober face, "that while you were rebuking vice, and standing up with dignified, virtuous firmness in the cause of our sex, I was misjudging you.
From Who Are Happiest? and Other Stories by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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
It was as if she were rebuking his observation.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
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
