Sentence examples similar to an admonitory statement from inspiring English sources

Yet it was also an admonitory poem — admonitory to myself.

Some African peoples hold that the first mask to be used was an admonitory one.

"The hand that adjusts the green carnation suddenly shakes an admonitory finger".

"Glovebox," she says in an admonitory voice, a cue for him to put the device into purdah for a while.

It shows the guerrilla commander raising an admonitory finger above the words: "Never betray the Congo".

Lest there be any doubt about the moral of this tale, Perrault added an admonitory coda.

Another Upper East Side president requested an admonitory letter directed at his neighbors for disturbing his sleep with their rambunctious lovemaking.

At 86, Angelica, now the dowager Duchess of Paltry, was last seen riding away on an admonitory hippopotamus.

For too many, the hand of friendship felt like an admonitory finger that was once again pointing at Britain's Muslims," she added.

For too many, the hand of friendship felt like an admonitory finger that was once again pointing at Britain's Muslims.

Much as he did in "District 9," a wobbly political allegory about crustaceanlike E.T.'s subjected to apartheid abuse in South Africa, Mr. Blomkamp builds on real catastrophes to create an admonitory tale.