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reasoned

How to use reasoned in a sentence

Remarkably prescient, these antiwar voices hold powerful lessons about the hazard of dismissing reasoned dissent.

His reasoned voice and ability to collaborate will be sorely missed.

But I reasoned with myself and managed to satisfy myself that he must have turned the chair round with his foot.

Fresh light may be shed on the matter by the battle now imminent, but I am cabling on reasoned existing facts.

Ought not Gilbert's happiness, she reasoned with herself, to have been dearer to her than all the world beside?

I should have despised myself forever if I had not believed in him and been true, she reasoned.

Turner was an artist of the rarest and most generous equipment, and he had to do what he did, and never reasoned why he did it.

Fennefos reasoned with and rebuked them; but although they listened, smiled, and thanked him, no change resulted.

SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLAND

His mind worked more freely when his toes were unconfined, so that he might wriggle them as he reasoned.

SCATTERGOOD BAINESCLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND

Miss Hatchard reasoned with her kindly, but to no purpose; she simply repeated: "I guess Mr. Royall's too lonesome."

SUMMEREDITH WHARTON

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985