REPROOF in a Sentence

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The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.

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 Meanings and Examples of REPROOF
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
reproof
 n.  expression of blame or censure; censure for a fault; reproach
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  It was a voice never raised in command to a servant or reproof to a child but a voice that was obeyed instantly at Tara, where her husband's blustering and roaring were quietly disregarded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  It protected her from reproof, and it left no doubt in anyone's mind as to her exact views on any subject.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  He arranged his face in what he fancied was an expression of careless unconcern and cautiously returned Scarlett's pinch to show that he was man of the world enough to understand and accept her reproof.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Whenever Scarlett raised her voice in reproof, he went weak with fright as his vague childish memory brought up the horrors of the first time she had ever done it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  Instead of punishment or reproof, she only regretted he had been shot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  After the reproof the youth said no more.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
7  They soon heard loud exclamations from Miss Ophelia's room, which, like the one in which they were sitting, opened on to the verandah and violent reproof addressed to somebody.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  Boisterous, unruly, and tyrannical, he despised all her counsel, and would none of her reproof; and, at an early age, broke from her, to seek his fortunes at sea.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
10  The clergyman stayed to exchange a few sentences, either of admonition or reproof, with his haughty parishioner; this duty done, he too departed.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  They betray an unfortunate state of mind: they merit severe reproof: they would seem inexcusable, but that it is the duty of man to forgive his fellow even until seventy-and-seven times.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  I crave pardon, brave Outlaw," said the Knight, "your reproof is just.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
13  The reproof of an immediate conclusion of everything, the sweep of every preparation, would be sufficient.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
14  Some very grave reproof, or at least the coldest expression of indifference, must be coming to distress her brother, and sink her to the ground.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
15  He was recalled from wit to wisdom, not by any reproof of hers, but by his own sensibility.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41
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