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Example sentences for "expostulatory"

Lexicographically close words:
expostulated; expostulates; expostulating; expostulation; expostulations; exposure; exposures; expound; expounded; expounder
  1. Stimulated by this opinion, his Prussian majesty is said to have written an expostulatory letter [433] [See note 3 L, at the end of this Vol.

  2. The Muscovite ambassador continued to write expostulatory letters to Mr. Secretary Boyle, who at last owned that the laws of the kingdom did not admit of such punishment as he demanded.

  3. The duke being obliged to relinquish the scheme, wrote an expostulatory letter to the states-general, complaining of their having withdrawn that confidence which they had reposed in him while he acted Germany.

  4. Cottle's very serious Expostulatory Epistle to Lord Byron (who had cast ridicule upon him and his brother in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers) was issued in 1820, after the publication of Don Juan had begun.

  5. The fact is, I have not seen your "Expostulatory Epistle" to him.

  6. With An Expostulatory Address to the Reverend Mr. W.

  7. With an expostulatory address to the Reverend Mr. W.

  8. Pizarro has grown tired of imprisonment and has set up an expostulatory wail, facetiously impatient at first, but now breaking into sharp yelps.

  9. He thought the dog's expostulatory growls a voice.

  10. It never occurred to Shelley to take offence at the freedom of Godwin's expostulatory letter.

  11. The undated expostulatory letter, which thus travelled from London to Lynmouth, via Chepstow, and came to Shelley's hands at Lynmouth on the 6th July, cannot have left London later than the 2nd instant.

  12. Thus he talked, in expostulatory rattle, the very high-priest of social morality, for some, time before Leopold could get a word in.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expostulatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advisory; deterrent; didactic; directive; discouraging; hortatory; instructive; intimidating; monitory; moralistic; objecting; protesting; remonstrative; sententious; warning