admonished
Example Sentences
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The court admonished the government and ordered it to pay legal expenses to the information commissioner.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Or, as Patchett’s mother once admonished after the failure of her daughter’s first marriage: “Stop trying to make everything permanent. It doesn’t work.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
“We can never recapture the purchasing power of the dollar that has been lost,” the chairman admonished his colleagues in August 1955—even as the consumer-price index registered a rare, small year-over-year decline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
They did hear testimony from an anti–death penalty lawyer who was admonished for testing DNA on a water bottle without the person’s permission.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2026
“Don’t talk about your father like that on Christmas Eve. Shame on you,” Mrs. Meecham admonished.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
