Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "reprimands"

Lexicographically close words:
reprieved; reprieves; reprimand; reprimanded; reprimanding; reprint; reprinted; reprinting; reprints; reprisal
  1. When my father hears what has taken place, a storm of reprimands will burst upon me.

  2. Reprimands are not very heavy to bear; would to heaven I were free at that price!

  3. This Old Woman reprimands her for not working.

  4. He reprimands her for having mercenary motives, and makes an eloquent plea for the equality of men.

  5. Reprimands and punishments following upon single acts are something different; they, too, may lead to moral reflections, but must first have become things of the past.

  6. Sharp reprimands ought not to be wasted on petty acts of negligence; they are needed for important things.

  7. Sir Sedley himself could gladly have pushed him out of the building; but neither the looks of surprise and provocation of the baronet, nor the prayers nor reprimands of Camilla, could tame his wild transport.

  8. Such reprimands had not often been addressed, even to inferior servants.

  9. The queen, notwithstanding this unusual concession of the commons, ended the session with a speech, containing some reprimands to them, and full of the same high pretensions which she had assumed at the opening of the parliament.

  10. Very carefully and gingerly they stepped as the eagle eye of Mrs. Wopp was upon them, and they knew that a full battery of reprimands and warnings was at hand.

  11. However, that strict disciplinarian had a vast store of startling reprimands that set all eyes gazing on her sincere countenance.

  12. So strong was the sense of subordination in the army and the desire to stand well with Napoleon, that even the fiery Murat paid attention to orders and reprimands signed by Berthier in the name of the Emperor.

  13. Consequently relations at headquarters were often strained, and the Marshals were angry at the severe reprimands to which they were subjected.

  14. He had become sluggish and self indulgent, liked the pleasures of society and of the table better than business, and on great emergencies generally waited for admonitions and even for reprimands from Versailles before he showed much activity.

  15. This generous freedom, which spares neither reprimands nor exhortation, has often occurred in the intercourse of literary men.

  16. They suffer an unrestrained communication of their ideas, and bear reprimands and exhortations.

  17. They suffer in unrestrained communication of their ideas, and bear reprimands and exhortations.

  18. I was sensitive as ever to the remarks and the looks of all with whom I came in contact, and the severe and unmerited reprimands of my father almost crushed me.

  19. My father's reprimands and threatenings could not, therefore, dissolve that bond which united me to Evelina, and she to me.

  20. It is very probable that among the reprimands he received at court, his affair with me was not forgotten.

  21. Not long since we had frequently to hear the reprimands visited on a little girl who was scarcely ever ready in time for the daily walk.

  22. Mrs Herbert received all her mother's reprimands in silence, without moving a muscle, without announcing, by the slightest change of colour, that the sarcasm had reached further than her ear.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reprimands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.