How to Use rebuke in a Sentence

rebuke

1 of 2 verb

• Besson has rebuked the notion that the movie is his comeback.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
• Water came to rebuke the too clear water .
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
• The premier has already rebuked him for speaking out of turn.
  — Bloomberg.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• Trump supporters, in turn, rebuke that claim.
  — Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 28 Oct. 2025
• This week, a federal judge sharply rebuked the agency’s use of masks.
  — Allison Gordon, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
• Some First Ladies rebuked the idea that they should be judged for their style choices.
  — Erika Harwood, Vanities, 25 Jan. 2017
• One of the duties of the church is to pray and rebuke demonic spirits.
  — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 11 Aug. 2025
• Thunberg is a child who rebukes adults for failing, and for forcing children to act.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2019
• Both helped Trump skirt an initial war powers rebuke in the House last month.
  — Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 8 Apr. 2026
• Douglass stood from the audience to rebuke his old friend; many others joined him.
  — Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
• The White House, in a rare move, directly rebuked the tech mogul.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
• Shame will also increase if the person who was harmed by our action rejects or rebukes us.
  — Annette Kämmerer, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2019
• The high court quickly rebuked him in a 7-2 unsigned order.
  — Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 16 Mar. 2026
• But the emperor turned on him, and rebuked him, and sent him back to the territory in shame.
  — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 12 Feb. 2020
• Among those to rebuke the mailers were the Ohio Young Black Democrats.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 28 Oct. 2021
• When God rebuked them, Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent.
  — wsj.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• But Chief Justice John Roberts has rebuked trump.
  — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
• The post is the latest in a series of public rebukes Young has aimed at Trump over the years.
  — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 10 Jan. 2026
• Massie has also sharply rebuked the President over his moves in Venezuela.
  — Chantelle Lee, Time, 28 Jan. 2026
• Trump is rebuked by the public and also by some of his colleagues for the Obama posting.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2026
• Apple says the Supreme Court should rebuke that looser standard.
  — Ella Lee, The Hill, 6 May 2026
• The members of the group rebuked gangster rap and blew up on the hip-hop scene with a smooth, sophisticated sound.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• That statement drew rebukes from even some of the president's closest supporters as well as the pope.
  — CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
• Roberts has also rebuked criticism from Democrats.
  — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 17 Mar. 2026
• Several players and activists took to social media that day to rebuke it.
  — Katherine Fominykh, baltimoresun.com, 20 June 2018
• Maximus offers to kill Xander and is swiftly rebuked.
  — Jack King, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
• The governor’s office sharply rebuked the court’s action.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026
• Sarandos surely didn’t run back and rebuke Eilish (her doc is with Apple, for one thing).
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 5 Feb. 2026
• Or a counselor who was told the week before the fire he was not being retained and had been rebuked for keeping a can of gasoline in his kitchen.
  — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• Mendoza rebuked the notion that this decision takes pressure off the players.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 1 May 2026

rebuke

2 of 2 noun

• And the first thing that came out was always some kind of rebuke.
  — Keith Gessen, Longreads, 10 July 2018
• Ansari has drawn no such rebuke from Rogen.
  — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
• Just this week, there have been four votes on formal rebukes and the threat of a fifth.
  — Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 21 Nov. 2025
• The key is to state these things helpfully and not as a rebuke.
  — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 3 July 2026
• Her speech drew a rebuke from fellow Democrats.
  — Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2026
• Democrats said Greene should face more than just a public rebuke.
  — Brian Slodysko, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2021
• The remarks rank among the Church’s sharpest rebukes of the war.
  — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2025
• The hard-line approach has sometimes drawn rebukes from the bench.
  — Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 21 Mar. 2023
• Nowhere have such spats been more ironic than in Vance’s rebuke of the pope.
  — Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 8 June 2026
• Failure to answer a question will get a rebuke from the judge.
  — Time, 14 Aug. 2023
• This is no longer simply about the rebuke of a president.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
• That kind of rebuke to the famous couple’s wealth may have come as no surprise.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
• His friend wrote back a sharp rebuke, saying the bet was serious.
  — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2022
• This is a far lighter self-rebuke than her previous language.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 14 Jan. 2020
• The rebukes delivered to him have been notably fierce as well.
  — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
• The argument drew a sharp rebuke from Rufe.
  — Deena Zaru, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2026
• Then the young linebacker offered a rebuke of his teammate.
  — Stephen Whyno, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026
• That sparked a sharp rebuke from the district’s leadership, and the change wasn’t made.
  — Gregory Pratt, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
• Yet his book also served as a rebuke to a new kind of soccer engagement.
  — Leo Robson, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2016
• Others view the outcome as a rebuke of the White House.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Feb. 2026
• That was the mildest rebuke Mr Johnson has faced in recent weeks.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• The windshield repels the huddled form and the thump on the pavement sounds like a rebuke.
  — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
• That’s the assertion that drew Woods’ rebuke.
  — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
• The referendum was a stinging rebuke for the builders of the project.
  — Robert Bryce, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• The delay drew widespread rebukes from Democrats.
  — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
• But after that opening clause came thousands of words of stinging rebuke.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 5 May 2021
• There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth and family rebuke.
  — Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 6 May 2021
• Sure enough, that drew a strong rebuke from Sputnik's Twitter team.
  — Adrian Croft, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2021
• Eddy's op-ed sparked debate among fans and even garnered rebuke from her teammates.
  — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 4 Nov. 2025
• Berman’s graciousness masked what amounted to a sharp rebuke to Barr’s plot.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 23 June 2020