How to Use reproach in a Sentence

reproach

1 of 2 noun

• She looked at him with reproach.
• His conduct has brought shame and reproach to his family.
• Accusations and reproaches from both parties made it difficult to pursue discussions.
• There’s the tyranny of clean and, atop that, the specter of reproach.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2021
• But the mood in the room was downbeat and his friends’ questions were full of reproach.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• To be sure, the goings-on at the hotel were not beyond reproach.
  — oregonlive, 3 Feb. 2022
• Moshe wanted to be beyond reproach in his work with the Mishkan.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 5 Mar. 2018
• The Nameless One goes to see him, and the archbishop greets him with a stern reproach for his evil life.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• To pass and accept a plus score would be beyond reproach.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2017
• Femme enough for his mother to treat his mere presence like a reproach.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2022
• Bigelow’s Sphinx is far from perfect, far from above reproach.
  — Colin Dickey, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2017
• Brewers go all in Hindsight tells you the trade was beyond reproach.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2020
• The loss wasn’t just about Shanahan’s once-beyond-reproach play-calling.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2021
• The bitter tears of self reproach made my chances of my own recovery feel …unattainable.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• His son suffers from severe autism, a condition which struck Markram as a reproach as well as a tragedy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2021
• For the past 35 seasons, the position has been held by only four men, all beyond reproach.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• If Perdue and Loeffler lose theirs, maybe that will be the example the rest of them need to keep their stock trading above reproach.
  — Joe Nocera Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 7 Dec. 2020
• First, pick a replacement for Comey that is beyond reproach.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 11 May 2017
• At the same time, her basketball acumen and ability to teach the game are beyond reproach.
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• Here was so much competence, so much courage, and for a purpose beyond reproach.
  — Bucky McMahon, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2017
• The Teamsters, which also has a long-running labor dispute with McKesson, aren’t alone in their reproach.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 11 July 2017
• Meanwhile, her husband-to-be is above reproach regardless of the outcome.
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
• The chief said that given the climate around law enforcement, the police department needs to be above reproach.
  — The Daily Astorian, oregonlive, 18 June 2020
• The record is a reproach to a nation that can call upon the greatest wealth and most advanced technical knowledge on the planet.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2021
• Zdeno Chara, 42 years old and playing with a broken jaw, is beyond reproach.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
• Boredom is a normal feeling, and there's no truth in the reproach that only boring people get bored.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 7 May 2020
• Moses wanted to be beyond reproach in his work with the Tabernacle (Midrash Tanchuma).
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2023
• When not to be receives reproach of being, / And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed / Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.
  — Nicole Silverberg, GQ, 30 May 2018
• That’s not a defense of Newsom, who is hardly beyond reproach.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2021
• Her boss, another older White man, told her to ignore the reproach and keep shining.
  — Nicole Gaouette, CNN, 6 May 2021

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reproach

2 of 2 verb

• You can’t be reproached for your inaction, but you’re right to wonder whether more could have been done.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
• Amidror called Yoni Koren, Barak’s chief of staff, and reproached him for not reporting the meeting with Emanuel.
  — New York Times, 4 Sep. 2019
• His daughter Luiza, now in her late 30s and living in Spain, reproached him for being absent from her life for the last 20 years.
  — Kit Gillet, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
• The left of his party reproaches him for being too favorable to business, and on the right he is seen as not doing enough for it.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2016
• Gibson, 75, would reproach Shapiro, 74, for being more shocked and offended by what happened to Gibson than Gibson was.
  — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• Parents reproach their children for failing to supply a polite answer instead of the real one.
  — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2021
• Pope Francis reproached him by giving him his encyclical on climate change.
  — Dana Milbank, chicagotribune.com, 3 June 2017
• The president reproached one reporter who questioned what the purpose of the national stockpile is if not to supply states with medical equipment when asked.
  — Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 3 Apr. 2020
• Nigerians from the North reproach the British with withholding the schools which their grandfathers had stipulated should not be introduced.
  — Helen Andrews, National Review, 18 Dec. 2017
• With the album's 10 year anniversary, the sister duo is reproaching it with perspective, an acoustic tour and covers album featuring Ryan Adams, Hayley Williams and more.
  — Trish Bendix, Billboard, 12 Oct. 2017
• Rather than blaming gun owners for mass shootings, Mr. Cox said, Americans should reproach the institutions of government and law enforcement that fail to stop such killings.
  — Alexander Burns, New York Times, 4 May 2018
• But while aggression in women remains suspect, the public is drawn, now more than ever, to girls who reproach and rebuke, calling the world to account for its ills — and girls in turn are learning to harness that public gaze to effect larger change.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2020
• And the incident also displays his reluctance to reproach his fans, however nasty their behavior.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 30 May 2018
• And as the president widened his attacks on law enforcement, Barr publicly reproached the president, saying that Trump’s statements undermined him as well the department.
  — Katie Benner, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2020
• If any of your relatives attempt to use your grandmother’s recent death in order to reproach you, feel free to ignore that transparently distracting tactic.
  — Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
• His oppressive trainer reproaches him for being too soft, too feminine.
  — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 5 June 2020
• Standing near the burned-down apartment building, residents also reproached authorities Wednesday, saying that members of a fire brigade had checked alarms in the building as recently as Saturday.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 14 June 2017
• Facing allegations of bias and the specter of regulatory action, social networks have been reluctant to reproach politicians.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 27 May 2020
• According to Marca, Ramos immediately reacted to Ronaldo’s actions by reproaching the Portuguese for his actions, having deemed his comments to be inappropriate during such a time for the club.
  — SI.com, 30 May 2018
• Parents and teachers gaped at the young writers, uncertain whether to reproach or praise these young adults for their language in writing about decidedly adult issues.
  — Tobi Jacobi, English Journal, March 2007
• Truffaut sharply reproached established French filmmakers for complaining about pressure from producers or from official censors.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 June 2019
• In addition to targeted and national sanctions, democratic countries have other ways to reproach states that violate international law.
  — Shelley Inglis, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2021
• In addition to employing targeted and national sanctions, democratic countries have other ways to reproach states that violate international law.
  — Shelley Inglis, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2021
• Conservatives reproached it for competing with commercial companies.
  — Amie Tsang, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
• She did not reproach herself with her failure; but she would have been happier if there had been less discrepancy between her words to Sophy Viner and the act which had followed them.
  — Edith Wharton, The Reef, 1912
• For years I fretted over these questions and reproached myself for not having taken that diary when it was offered to me in 1945.
  — John Hope Franklin, Race and History, 1989
• You can’t be reproached for your inaction, but you’re right to wonder whether more could have been done.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
• Amidror called Yoni Koren, Barak’s chief of staff, and reproached him for not reporting the meeting with Emanuel.
  — New York Times, 4 Sep. 2019
• His daughter Luiza, now in her late 30s and living in Spain, reproached him for being absent from her life for the last 20 years.
  — Kit Gillet, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
• The left of his party reproaches him for being too favorable to business, and on the right he is seen as not doing enough for it.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2016

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