Sentence examples for were rebuked from inspiring English sources

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"were rebuked" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to indicate that someone was reprimanded. For example, "The students were rebuked for not following the teacher's instructions."

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were rebuked

verb

To criticise harshly; to reprove.

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Instead, American policies were rebuked again and again.

Last year, they subpoenaed outtakes and notes from Mr. Burns's production company, and were rebuked recently when a federal judge quashed the subpoena.

This week they were rebuked by Campaign 2000, an activist group, which reported that child poverty is now as bad as it was two decades ago.

Cloaking themselves in the lexicon of the uprising, they cast themselves as Egypt's revolutionary flag-bearers, but their efforts were rebuked.

The newspapers initially gave the videos front-page coverage, and news channels broadcast extracts of the clips until they were rebuked by the national broadcasting commission.

But restaurant operators in the chamber greeted parts of the commissioner's testimony with jeers, then were rebuked into silence, and some offered their own experiences with inspectors' visits.

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Now they were rebuking him for his recklessness.

The newspapers were rebuking him for overlooking something that he would have liked better.

I was rebuked".

"I was rebuked, I was attacked," he said.

When I was rebuked by contacts, I feared.

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