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Example sentences for "reproaches"

Lexicographically close words:
reprisals; reprise; reprit; reproach; reproached; reproacheth; reproachful; reproachfully; reproaching; reproachless
  1. My sorrow may bear involuntary witness against you at the Judgment Throne; but my angry thoughts or my reproaches never will, I know!

  2. Cyrus received the reproaches meekly, and then asked Cyaxares to give him the two animals that he had killed; he wanted to carry them home to his grandfather.

  3. I could not bear my daughter's grief, or the reproaches which she incessantly uttered against me.

  4. Mandane mourned incessantly the death of her innocent babe, and loaded her father with reproaches for having destroyed it, which he found it very hard to bear.

  5. He directed to have them all seized and brought before him, and then, having upbraided them with bitter reproaches for their false predictions, he ordered them all to be crucified.

  6. It was all perfectly true, so they then heaped reproaches on Mr Trump for letting Markworth know before communicating with them.

  7. Saint Joseph gets into a quarrel with two maids; there is a free fight; vulgar reproaches and blows are exchanged.

  8. I entreat you; dash this vessel on some rugged crag, and overwhelm me so that I can no longer be conscious either of my humiliation or of the reproaches of my Rutulians.

  9. The reproaches died when they saw him, for only a little while before he had saved them from a German prison by swooping down with his machine and carrying them off from their captors.

  10. Why should I be grieved with reproaches wherewith some of my country do recompense me for my labours, taken without hope of temporal reward, only for the fervent affection which I have ever borne toward the public weal of my country?

  11. It was not a cheerful household; reproaches are hard to bear when physical energy is wanting to resist them.

  12. Mamma reproaches me that I don't take more interest in philanthropy.

  13. Hitherto, he had been tame, seemingly devoid of spirit--you have not forgotten the reproaches of his cousin, which actually conveyed an imputation against his manliness?

  14. He had his answer for any reproaches which she might make.

  15. But neither your self-reproaches nor my confession will acquit us.

  16. As for the reproaches heaped upon Bonaparte for the overthrow of Venice, he was little concerned.

  17. The reproaches Napoleon had heaped upon him must have been in the main undeserved, for he was never degraded; but they broke his spirit, and he doubtless committed suicide.

  18. But I will not bear the reproaches of my children.

  19. From my soul I despise her meanness; but she has long ago lost that treasure which, a great authority tells us, exalteth a nation, and is receiving the reproaches due to her crimes.

  20. Here was a new cause for angry excitement and wrathful reproaches in the desecration of what they held most sacred.

  21. By strict observance of the Law we shall attain a clearer insight into its deepest meaning, and shall likewise escape the remarks and reproaches of the people.

  22. These alleviations of the burdens of the people drew down reproaches on the Patriarch from certain of his relatives, to whom he replied that his predecessors had left this duty to him.

  23. Mary very seldom realises this, and reproaches John for ceasing to feel loving towards her!

  24. If they could analyse causes, what bitter reproaches many poor little diseased, neurotic children might truly throw at their irresponsible mothers for endowing them with these evils before birth.

  25. To all his reproaches Déna could answer nothing, but sat with his hands joined together beseechingly, asking for patience and pity.

  26. And this, Rachel might have said; and she might have added that to bear daily reproaches and insults, formed no part of her agreement with Mrs. Brown.

  27. Rachel received her reproaches with more of apathy than of her usual resignation.

  28. Violent were the reproaches with which Mrs. Gray greeted her daughter's reappearance.

  29. A fit of weeping and bitter reproaches followed the hysterics; and Rachel was convicted of being the most ungrateful creature on the face of the earth.

  30. Various reproaches which formerly he had made to himself regarding Pani Elzen, and above all regarding marriage with her, returned to him with renewed force.

  31. I could not have mentioned those reproaches so freely.

  32. She complied with great reluctance, and not without many reproaches to herself for retarding my flight.

  33. Do not plague me with reproaches and lamentations; it is past.

  34. On November 22, Beethoven writes again: he had been expecting reproaches for his negligence but though he had delivered nothing he had received the honorarium.

  35. But far from feeling grateful for her preservation, she loaded him with reproaches and ever afterwards manifested the most deadly hatred towards him.

  36. If, as sometimes happens, a corpse is interred before a relative can arrive from a distance, he will on arrival break out into reproaches and upbraidings against the grave-diggers for exposing him to the wrath of the departed spirit.


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