expostulation

Example Sentences

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With an expostulation of wonder, the Dalai Lama sat back and clasped his hands together.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2014

How do you say "a handbag"? without falling short of Dame Edith Evans's most famous expostulation?

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2012

At first glance it seemed curious that the editors of Nature bothered to print Professor Stark's expostulation at all.

From Time Magazine Archive

Democracy, republished this week for the first time in a quarter-century, is one of the two novels Adams wrote in his lifelong expostulation with a nation that failed to give him his birthright.

From Time Magazine Archive

The circle closed up again with a running murmur of expostulation; it was a minute before I could see anything at all.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald