Example Sentences

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Other ambitious self-starters will counsel you to hitch up your trousers and keep at it.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2022

The group brings deep substantive knowledge and experience — in some cases, decades of it — working with the agencies on which they will counsel the president-elect.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2020

Trying to display some patience with his veteran right-hander, Rodriguez will counsel him.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2011

Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images will not seek to silence in the wake of the midfielder's latest brush with controversy but he will counsel him against causing needless hurt.

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2011

"Pylos will counsel me henceforth. Already he works with the ravens, since you can no longer climb to the rookery. I will not have you kill yourself in my service."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin