Looking for sentences and phrases with the word expostulation? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
This, under the circumstances, has been justly characterized by one of the witnesses as an expression of remonstrance or expostulation.
The words, which contain a lover's pathetic expostulation with his fickle mistress, are set for four voices.
It was exciting, and always got the crowd going, with much clapping, expostulation and dancing of the gopak.
It is never any good, and neither is the faint air of expostulation that Mrs McAllister has begun to bring to discussions of Marigold's social life.
The canon chancellor lollops in, full of expostulation and fervour.
Examples from Classical Literature
And the banderillero could make no further headway in his expostulation with Gallardo.
There was no touch of expostulation in the voice with which she answered him.
For three days they besieged Ivan with expostulation, incredulity, persuasion.
The voices of men, one in entreaty, one in expostulation, came from the box.
Amlie shuddered at his vehemence, but she knew how useless was expostulation.
Perhaps this expostulation with one of their witnesses, awakened their suspicions.
Even towards the end of his life, he warded off the insinuations of Alberto Pio of carpi in a lengthy expostulation.
It is a sort of expostulation with the Duke, but mildly and sensibly expressed.
But solicitation and expostulation were thrown away on Grenville.
Finding his struggles useless, he resorted to expostulation.
I will hear no pleas, I will receive no letter, nor expostulation.
Their faces fell, and even mark began a gentle expostulation.
For several years my husband received letters of expostulation or commendation from members of the Campbell and Stewart clans.
He wasted few words in inquiry, still fewer in expostulation.
In his expostulation he dropped his cleaner hand upon the joker's heart.
This answer produced a vehement expostulation from my excitable neighbor, to which I paid little attention, being better engaged in reading the handbill.
