remonstrate

Example Sentences

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Despite its military prowess, Sparta lacked strategic depth; its king, Archidamus II, therefore urged his countrymen to remonstrate with the Athenians, to buy time while recruiting other distant powers to their side.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

The court heard Mr Fellows recognised Amesbury and approached him to remonstrate about a bridge closure in the town.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2025

The article’s sensational headline read, “Raving Private Ryan! Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson remonstrate with a red carpet staffer as they attend the 76th Cannes Film Festival premiere of Asteroid City.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2023

The match delegate countered that perhaps “a caution and reprimand would have been sufficient” because other managers remonstrate with officials “without such punishment,” the FA’s ruling noted.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2022

We began to remonstrate; but he walked away, calling orders, and we heard Olakunde’s drum bidding us fall in.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson