admonition
Example Sentences
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When the packages arrived, I pried open a pack and popped the top mint into my mouth, despite my wife’s admonition, “Are you insane?”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Jessica Lautz, vice president of research at the National Association of Realtors, offers this admonition to homeowners selling for the first time in years: “It’s a very different housing market today.”
From MarketWatch • Dec. 30, 2025
Eilish’s admonition and Parton’s example resonates because it underscores a broader cultural conversation: wealth comes with choices.
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025
MacManus initially embraced her mother’s admonition that education was the way to get ahead and didn’t make a career out of Cielito Lindo.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2025
The heat was almost gone out of the radiators: the cold iron fluting stem signal and admonition for sleeping, the little death, the renewal.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
Vocabulary lists containing admonition
The Giver
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Metamorphosis
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