instructed
Example Sentences
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“Therefore, and based on the fact that it is too late to cancel, I have instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to substantially reduce the Joint Military Exercises!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Administrators later warned teachers there were a “LOT of mistakes” on pages 19 through 36 and instructed students to tear the pages out of their planners before taking them home.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Some participants were instructed to meet that target using whole fruits and vegetables alone.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
He was instructed to leave the drones and other items inside.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
“Deuteronomy Thirty-Two Ten. ‘He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.’”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
