Example Sentences

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He shook his head, sadly and heavily, as if he were reproaching her and it was a sorrow to him, but he was doing it for her own good.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

A coarse man of the world might have stifled the tender voices that were reproaching him, and have gone on his way uncaring that his conduct— Hardened a' within, And petrified the feeling.

From Robert Burns by Shairp, John Campbell

When they spoke of Addie's life as a small child, it was as though they two, the father and the mother, were reproaching the grandparents.

From Small Souls by Couperus, Louis

Elinor laid her head on her pillow that night with the unpleasant reflection, that four persons under the same roof were reproaching her for the step she had taken that day.

From Elinor Wyllys, Volume 2 by Cooper, Susan Fenimore

Cuchullain lies slumbering by yonder rock, and he moans in his sleep as if the people of the Sidhe were reproaching his soul for some misdeed.

From AE in the Irish Theosophist by Russell, George William