admonish

The home-plate umpire paused the game to admonish Santana for coming set before Caballero was looking at him, a transgression that could result in an automatic ball being added to the count.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Antonelli complained again about Russell's driving on the slowing down lap and Wolff again came on the radio to admonish him: "Kimi, we talk about this privately, not on the radio."

From BBC ● May 23, 2026

"We stayed to guard our soil," her daughter Najat al-Nour, a Quran professor in her fifties who lifted her chin high to admonish those who left.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

The fine may have been less than some traffic tickets, but it’s nearly unheard for a judge to formally admonish a government lawyer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026

Bailey sat down beside me, and that time didn’t admonish me not to cry.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

“Consequently, the conference is imposing a $5,000 fine and admonishes all institutions to use the “out” designation only if there are no circumstances under which a student-athlete could participate in a game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025

“NEVER attempt to remove a crab from its sea shell,” the sheet admonishes.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025

The league sometimes admits mistakes and admonishes referees.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

Here she admonishes women of means who struggle to breastfeed.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 2, 2023

The kindness gives way a moment when he snaps his fingers and curtly admonishes the guardias for not putting out chairs for his guests.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Keaton reportedly confronted the teenage fans and admonished them during the game.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Yitzhak Rabin admonished his country to “fight terrorism as if there’s no peace process, and work to achieve peace as if there’s no terror.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

The court admonished the government and ordered it to pay legal expenses to the information commissioner.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 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

English was then still a party favor for me—crack open the dictionary, find out if I'd just been insulted, praised, admonished, criticized.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Robert Mueller, who ran the FBI from 2001 to 2013, was known to adhere to Hoover’s G-man dress code of white shirts and dark suits, admonishing agents who wore something more colorful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

And on Sunday, he was admonishing himself for it.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025

My adolescent memories ring with the sounds of Stiller admonishing his son-in-law and crying mutiny at a shopping mall pretzel shop.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2025

On that December day, Lavin’s husband, Steve Bakunas, had been driving her to the hospital, with Lavin admonishing him not to speed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025

“Then I suggest you begin at once,” admonished the Dodecahedron from his admonishing face, “for here in Digitopolis everything is quite precise.”

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster