EXPOSTULATE in a Sentence

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19 example sentences for EXPOSTULATE, such as:

1. Lily continued to meet his expostulations with a smile.
2. Connie expostulated roundly, and was angry with both of them.
3. They expostulate with him about the risk involve in his plan.
4. They expostulated with him about the risks involved in his plan.
5. He has at present such a quantity that I have had myself to expostulate.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXPOSTULATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
expostulate
 v.  reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  The generous nature of Safie was outraged by this command; she attempted to expostulate with her father, but he left her angrily, reiterating his tyrannical mandate.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
2  As we left her standing in the road, Mr. Murdstone came up to where she was, and seemed to expostulate with her for being so moved.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
3  Sometimes, when the day was very unfavourable, his sisters would expostulate.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  He has at present such a quantity that I have had myself to expostulate.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  Miss Bingley warmly resented the indignity he had received, in an expostulation with her brother for talking such nonsense.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
6  The circle closed up again with a running murmur of expostulation; it was a minute before I could see anything at all.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
7  "Tut-tut-tut," Mrs. Lynn-Jones expostulated.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
8  It was in vain that Cedric expostulated with his guards, who had too many good reasons for their silence to be induced to break it either by his wrath or his expostulations.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  Connie expostulated roundly, and was angry with both of them.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
10  I expostulated, and desired that he should have his in a mug; affirming that I could not taste the liquid treated so dirtily.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  Pardon me," expostulated Chichikov, "but that procedure will take up a great deal of time.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
12  For the drunken voices expostulating with Rhett were those of Ashley and Hugh Elsing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
13  There was not a soul there save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who seemed to be expostulating with them.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
14  Lily continued to meet his expostulations with a smile.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
15  But his wife's expostulations awoke his half-slumbering regrets; and Tom's manly disinterestedness increased the unpleasantness of his feelings.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  They expostulate with him about the risk involve in his plan.
2  They expostulated with him about the risks involved in his plan.
3  One strong proof of my wretchedly defective nature is, that even her expostulations, so mild, so rational, have not influence to cure me of my faults.