Sentence examples for were reproached from inspiring English sources
verb
To criticize or rebuke someone.
Perhaps aware that Banks considered that the columnar basalt cliff formations on Ulva called "The Castles" rivalled Staffa's Johnson wrote: When the islanders were reproached with their ignorance or insensibility of the wonders of Staffa, they had not much to reply.
He feels he is being reproached.
Mendes-France was reproached for favoring it, too.
"I was expecting to be reproached for the love scenes.
"So how can we be reproached?," Mr. Bernard asked.
"Russia is reproached for isolating itself…They say Russia is angry.
The Soviets have often been reproached for suppressing what they knew about the Holocaust.
But the brothers should not be reproached for departing from the original.
Prince Charles is being reproached again for having too many views on his future kingdom.
"Do not ever bring that lady back here again," he is reproached.
"That is something which we are being reproached for – for example, at Nestlé.
