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Example sentences for "admonish"

Lexicographically close words:
admitting; admixed; admixture; admixtures; admodum; admonished; admonishes; admonisheth; admonishing; admonition
  1. It is sinful to be silent when you have a call to speak: if you forbear to admonish the offender in love between him and you, when you have opportunity and just cause, it is sinful to be silent then.

  2. The falls of good men are cited in Scripture, to admonish you to take heed.

  3. To take two or three to admonish him; or to refer the matter to arbitrators (or in some cases to a lot).

  4. Discourage not those that would admonish or reprove you, nor neglect their opinion of you.

  5. I shall therefore utterly forbid, that those in whom nature should admonish to avoid too gross familiarities, shall be received in parties of pleasure where there is the least danger of excess.

  6. I had long wanted to speak with this person, because I thought I could admonish him of many things which would tend to his improvement.

  7. The ministers and servants shall visit and admonish their brothers and humbly and lovingly correct them.

  8. We shall admonish him again to give up oppressing and injuring the nobles, the poor, the widows and orphans, and others of his land, and then we shall proceed to act ourselves in the matter.

  9. But, if such a one should afterwards draw back from his good profession or practice, they first admonish him, and, if that has no effect, they leave him to himself.

  10. Thirty years later an order of the House was framed, whereby, "If any touch another by nipping or irreverent speech, the Speaker may admonish him.

  11. Every incumbent is ordered to have a clerk who shall sing with him the service, read the epistle and lesson, teach in the school, and admonish the parishioners to send their children to the church to be instructed in the faith.

  12. The injunction to teach and admonish by means of songs also agrees with other evidences that a prime motive for hymn singing in many of the churches was instruction in the doctrines of the faith.

  13. Palestrina for failing to please with a certain mass and admonish him to do better work in the future.

  14. Let my calamity admonish you To make a better use of your large wealth, While you may call it yours.

  15. It is the custom of most gentlemen Not to confess until they feel their bones Begin t' admonish 'em.

  16. So my aunt comforted her with a few kind words, and then went on to admonish her as follows: "Verily it is not love you lack, but patient trust.

  17. Although the doctors of Zanján arose with heart and soul to exhort and admonish the people they could effect nothing.

  18. Does it appear presumption to your lordship that eight doctors of theology, who might properly address a whole General Council on matters of faith and government of the universal Church, should come to admonish a Council of the King?

  19. Our position in relation to the most powerful nations of the earth, and the present condition of Europe, admonish us to cherish this arm of our national defense with peculiar care.

  20. Nor would it be safe in our time to tolerate in any regiment religious meetings, at which a corporal versed in Scripture should lead the devotions of his less gifted colonel, and admonish a backsliding major.

  21. The Editor thinks it audacious in a hereditary Counsellor of the King to admonish the 'Heir Apparent'.

  22. But we "think it audacious in an hereditary Counsellor of the KING to admonish the Heir Apparent.

  23. Is that the mode in which he should admonish the Heir Apparent?

  24. The Editor thinks it audacious in a hereditary Counsellor of the KING to admonish the 'Heir Apparent'.

  25. Me fruitful scenes and prospects waste Alike admonish not to roam; These tell me of enjoyments past, And those of sorrows yet to come.

  26. But we admonish him that passion and prejudice can only give a temporary éclat to his argument.

  27. While our best endeavors for the preservation of harmony with all nations will continue to be used, the experience of the world and our own experience admonish us of the insecurity of trusting too confidently to their success.

  28. The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.

  29. Beethoven was greatly concerned about the outcome and, as if at once to encourage and admonish them, he drafted a document in which all pledged themselves to do their best and sent it to them for signature.

  30. In a second letter he suggests that the magistrate admonish the young man and give him to understand that he will be under police surveillance while he is with his uncle.

  31. As lord of England, for they did not hesitate to designate him as such, he might admonish King John, and, if necessary, force him to restore unimpaired the old rights guaranteed them by the charters of earlier Kings.

  32. Hugh Latimer was cast in a sterner mould; he actually dared, in the midst of the persecutions, to admonish the King, whose chaplain he was, of the welfare of his soul and his duty as King.

  33. On its conclusion they bestowed upon Dioneo a few words of gentle reprehension with intent to admonish him that such stories were not to be told among ladies.

  34. So one ought not to admonish him, who will not act on good advice.

  35. So he wishes you to go there and admonish her, that she may be ready to marry.

  36. So, you see, a wise man is easily made to listen to reason, but the foolish Marubhuti cannot be induced to listen to reason, but when you admonish him, he flies into a passion.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "admonish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    admonish; advise; alert; caution; charge; chastise; chide; correct; daunt; dissuade; encourage; enjoin; exhort; expostulate; incite; induce; intimidate; lecture; lesson; move; notice; notify; persuade; preach; prompt; punish; rate; rebuke; remind; remonstrate; reprehend; reprimand; reproach; reprove; scold; spank; speak; threaten; tip; upbraid; urge; warn