reprove

Example Sentences

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“I always feel like you have to reprove yourself,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2024

Alone, I reprove the thought as fantasy, a secret desire to sever myself from the man who has abandoned me twice.

From Salon • Dec. 5, 2021

Scalia’ll reprove ya With some jurisprudential effluvia, Then, with scowling harrumph And a baleful galumph, He’ll trudge homeward to Antediluvia.

From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2015

So you’ve got to really prove and reprove yourself over and over and over again just to get an opportunity.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2012

Admonish, ad-mon′ish, v.t. to warn: to reprove mildly.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various