Example Sentences

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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 Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

I can!” said Barter impatiently, as though he were rebuking a schoolboy for saying the obvious.

From The Mind Master by Burks, Arthur J.

"What do you mean, Kitty, child?" said her father, in amazement, for it almost seemed as if Kitty were rebuking her grandmother.

From Marjorie's Maytime by Wells, Carolyn

And the spanner went down as if Neptune were rebuking the seas.

From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

Bert spoke good naturedly, but we felt, none the less, as if he were rebuking us.

From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Eaton, Walter Prichard