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Example sentences for "reproached"

Lexicographically close words:
reprisal; reprisals; reprise; reprit; reproach; reproaches; reproacheth; reproachful; reproachfully; reproaching
  1. Cilla reproached her cousin with utter absence of any sense of propriety and decorum.

  2. I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

  3. This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

  4. For when he told Patala the story of his life, she reproached him for his neglect of one to whom he owed so much.

  5. He remembered that he had left his dear mother in prison, and reproached himself for having forgotten her for so long.

  6. Coming down in the train he had reproached himself greatly for his vacillation, and his boats had flared up behind him in a most illuminating conflagration.

  7. He still cherished an ardent love for his country, and almost reproached himself for leaving it.

  8. This touched me, and I confess, to my great shame, I reproached him in my excessive grief with some expressions of bitterness.

  9. With fervid words, imperious accents, and impressive voice, he reproached the people with their sins, and threatened them with the anger of God.

  10. The king, informed of this, reproached M.

  11. Then his mother reproached him, telling him of their distress and wearisome search.

  12. The parents reproached themselves for their lack of care and caution.

  13. Then came Martha, who reproached the Master with His indifference and delay.

  14. His patron, when he found him absent from the assemblies of fashion and reproved him, reproached him with playing truant, Caponsacchi said he had resolved to go to Rome, and look into his heart a little.

  15. She reflected how the Athenian multitude had ever reproached him: "All thine aim thine art, the idle poet only.

  16. I lamented the wretched captivity he was in; but I never reproached him.

  17. Tiberius Gracchus reproached you with the inconsistency of your conduct, when, after refusing these offers, you so little respected the tribunitian authority.

  18. He at the same time reproached James with conduct unworthy of one who was 'called a mighty Prince and a courageous knight,' in making daily forays and suddenly retiring again.

  19. But Caesar reproached him in this very matter on which he most relied for ultimate safety, and by setting before him how he had repaid friendliness with the opposite treatment proved his offence to have been the more abominable.

  20. Do not suppose that they are snubbed and reproached because they eat the food of the household.

  21. They have reproached me a hundred times because we [110] fear our Captains, while they laugh at and make sport of theirs.

  22. Judge Evans says he has reproached himself more than once that he had not in some way made known what he knew, but was constrained to silence by considerations of patriotism that were above all else at that time.

  23. It is not the prince who is offended with our lord, but our lord with the prince, and he has reproached him.

  24. The chief of the palace, being reproached continually, dismissed from day to day a number of persons, and limited the allowances of others.

  25. A said nought about sweethearts,' replied he, as if his wife had reproached him in some way.

  26. If she had been less occupied with her own affairs, less engrossed with deep feeling, she would have reproached him, if only in jest, for his carelessness.

  27. I thought so myself at first, and reproached myself for thus dwelling on the saying of a boy who could not yet know the meaning of his own words.

  28. Harriet, who met him on the Common one cold afternoon, reproached him, during the course of a slow ride, for his non-appearance at various dinners and teas.

  29. But twenty minutes later when, very trim and dainty in her blue bathing suit and scarlet cap, she came out of the bath-house to join Ann and the doctor on the beach, she reproached herself.

  30. He also reproached all those kinsmen of Archelaus who had left him, and were gone over to his accusers.

  31. She also frequently reproached Herod's sister and wives with the ignobility of their descent; and that they were every one chosen by him for their beauty, but not for their family.

  32. The emperor reproached his aides-de-camp with having deserted him.

  33. We are reproached with the great efforts England has made in behalf of the house of Austria.

  34. Several times he was on the point of mentioning the subject to Wade Powell, but somehow, with a reticence for which he reproached himself, he could not bring himself to do it.

  35. He reproached himself bitterly, and he told himself that the best thing he could do would be to go away somewhere, and not tell Lavinia, or anybody.

  36. You not only reproached him with being poor, but you discouraged him as to his prospects!

  37. Jean, watchful ever, reproached him and made him change his ways a little.

  38. He reproached his wife with unwifely disobedience, and with the crime of turning her own offspring against his father, and the two but mocked him!

  39. It would have seemed natural that He should hasten to vindicate His claims and expose the folly of the scribes, or else have reproached His followers for the failure which had compromised Him.

  40. But in their first agony and despair, when all voices were unanimous against the Blessed One, and they too must needs find some outlet for their frenzy, they both reproached Him.

  41. And they that were crucified with Him reproached Him.

  42. He hath inherited all her affection for my dead lord, and she in her grief reproached me that I had ruined him, for it seems he hath fallen in love in a fantastical sad fashion.

  43. My Lady has forgiven you; indeed, I think has forgotten that she Ever reproached you.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reproached" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.