To train a dog well, you must sternly rebuke it for any misbehavior. From LearnThat.org.
He had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Mr. Broughton's comments drew a rebuke from the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Air Passenger Screening Draws New Scrutiny] Reference
American voters delivered a stinging midterm rebuke Tuesday to. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
The word rebuke has the combined force of reproving and commanding. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
How the Media will react to this well deserved rebuke is the question. From Wordnik.com. [Initial blog reaction to Hillary's victory] Reference
The incident prompted a rare public rebuke from the Chinese Foreign Ministry. From Wordnik.com. [Plane, possibly North Korean, crashes in China field] Reference
Bryson sniggered behind his data-pad drawing a sharp rebuke from the Captain. From Wordnik.com. [Kissed By Venus] Reference
The word rebuke here means to admonish, or earnestly to entreat, as in Lu 17: 3. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
The decision attracted a stinging rebuke from the then equalities minister Harriet Harman. From Wordnik.com. [Tess Daly: the interview] Reference
I was unsure as to what he might say, but there was not a word of rebuke, only happy blessings. From Wordnik.com. [Not the Girl Next Door] Reference
So we focusing to stifle that bit in rebuke and provide you with the cheapest standing possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Rabbit] Reference
Toyota received a rebuke from the Japanese government and was ordered to overhaul its recall system. From Wordnik.com. [International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions] Reference
And the Knightley view haunts any rereading, by which time the reader knows his rebuke is impending. From Wordnik.com. [Boxing Emma; or the Readers Dilemma at the Box Hill Games] Reference
Their rebuke is wrong, inappropriate, gratuitous, and smacks of an effort to curry favor with the White House. From Wordnik.com. [06/16/2005] Reference
The man was confounded at this rebuke from a little child and forthright grace entered him and he was reclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
A rebuke from the head of the DNC only reinforces the anti-establishment, party-line-bucking image that Manchin is seeking. From Wordnik.com. [DNC Chair Kaine 'Not Wild' About Manchin Ad In Which He Literally Shoots Cap & Trade] Reference
It was inserted here to give the reader the reasons which called forth so strong and severe a rebuke from the angel of the Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Still, Obama drew a rebuke from the National Day of Prayer Task Force, a private group that promotes prayer events around the country. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Bay Press-Gazette Latest Headlines] Reference
But more than 1,000 days have passed since that anthem came out and Obama's midterm rebuke--to use Jon Meacham's phrase--calls for another. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Headington: Message to Republicans: We're Not Afraid] Reference
The rebuke was the harshest I had ever heard Jodoli speak. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
It is impossible to connect the notion of rebuke with the sins of Panurge. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Shakespeare] Reference
The booke called a rebuke to K-ebellion, to the good olde Earle of Bed - ford. From Wordnik.com. [Typographical antiquities: an historical account of printing in England ...] Reference
The effect of her rebuke is the overwhelming of his heart with shame and contrition. From Wordnik.com. [Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920] Reference
Clearly, the rebuke was along the lines of: “watch it on the pretension, kiddo.”. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » On Semicolons] Reference
Friend Madhavya, tell Queen Hansavati in my name that the rebuke is a very pretty one. From Wordnik.com. [Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works] Reference
Lu 11: 15, 16); but as the spirit of both was similar, the tone of severe rebuke is continued. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
I did not "rebuke" Yavlinsky for not endorsing Yeltsin. From Wordnik.com. ['Struggle for the Kremlin': An Exchange] Reference
If by "rebuke," you mean "one of the exceptions that proves the rule," sure. From Wordnik.com. [“The Final Hermes Solution” - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference
Until I hear that from a reputable source, I won't believe Clinton's "rebuke". From Wordnik.com. [McCain Says He'll Bring "Every Pressure To Bear" To Stop Obama/Wright Ad -- But It's Still Set To Run] Reference
I suspect you are a politician....because that was a very subtle ' rebuke'. From Wordnik.com. [Want to be an extra?] Reference
I do not offer them as a kind of rebuke, for I do feel these events do strike us. From Wordnik.com. [Difficult Poetry : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
How freaking spoiled do you have to be to think that a mistake merits that kind of rebuke?. From Wordnik.com. [Top 10 Actors We’d Love to See Get Beat Up on MTV’s Bully Beatdown] Reference
Analysts said the results were a "rebuke" to Mr Najib's new government. From Wordnik.com. [Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com] Reference
& Tower, one of two hotels that had been attacked, partly as a "rebuke" of the terrorists. From Wordnik.com. [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference
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