Sentence examples for were cautionary from inspiring English sources

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were cautionary

adjective

Serving to caution or warn; admonitory

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There were cautionary hints aplenty from the get-go.

They were cautionary tales all too true, he would say.

There were cautionary tales of parents who died unexpectedly and uninsured, leaving their children in the lurch.

These were cautionary tales: "Don't get too excited about automating, because you could break things". [One problem was that] the informal things [about office interactions] were offline and the formal were online.

If there were cautionary words preceding each episode of the film, they might advise viewer discretion on the grounds that men who don't look like Hugh Grant remove very bad clothes to reveal paunchy bodies.

There were cautionary tales, like that of Conor Jackson, who was picked by the Diamondbacks in the first round of the 2003 draft and quickly rose to the majors before being struck by the illness in 2009, when he lost 30 pounds and had his career derailed.

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"They're cautionary tales.

Her story is cautionary.

This irony is cautionary.

But there are cautionary tales.

But his example is cautionary.

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