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How to use the word admonish in a Sentence?

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This has been such a traumatic thing for the world, that if we don't come out of it changed or better then it's been a tremendous waste of opportunity. And we should admonish ourselves.

Dereck Joubert

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think it is appropriate for me to admonish both the Democratic House managers and the President's counsel in equal terms to remember that they are addressing the world's greatest deliberative body, one reason it has earned that title is because its members avoid speaking in a manner and using language that is not conducive to civil discourse.

Chief Justice John Roberts

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You can’t ban people from going to a church, this guy is trying to use the legal system to ban city council people from attending any type of church service. To get the court to admonish them for daring to go to a church service is just wrong.

Attorney Dys

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There were unfathomable horrors everywhere, they all admonish us to never forget. No, we will never forget. We'll not forget for the sake of the victims, for our own sake, and for the sake of future generations.

Chancellor Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We won't let the care fall apart, but this is not an uncertainty that we could endure for a very long time, we're going to lobby through hospital associations and medical associations to admonish everybody that there needs to be a soft landing here.

President Joe Piemont

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Bible, Colossians 3:16

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13 years ago

Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.

Publilius Syrus

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14 years ago

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

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14 years ago

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