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Reproached in sentence

65 examples of Reproached in a sentence

After the speech I was reproached for my demand that Soviet troops leave our country.
But Blix reproached Kay for his attitude.
Many commentators have reproached Putin for agreeing to take a job that they say is beneath him – assuming responsibility for road-building, social services, inflation, and many other problems that could undermine his popularity.
However, he should be thanked rather than reproached.
Gauck told Germans in no uncertain terms that they had to be willing to use force, at least as a last resort, and reproached those of his fellow citizens “who use Germany’s guilt for its past as a shield for laziness or a desire to disengage from the world.”
In his 2004 book The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next, Lee Smolin reproached the physics profession for being seduced by beautiful and elegant theories (notably string theory) rather than those that can be tested by experimentation.
A leading journalist, Cristian Tudor Popescu, reproached animal rights defenders for their moral relativism and insensitivity to human suffering.
In the old days, cricket was reproached as a sport played by Anglicized elites in the big cities.
Contrary to much facile criticism, Europe cannot be reproached for imposing austerity on the Greeks.
But Europe can be reproached for an initially late, badly designed, unbalanced, and inequitable program.
The article reproached the Government and the Academy for leaving a remarkable artist without encouragement or help.
He assured her of his love, because he saw that that alone could pacify her now, and did not reproach her with words, though he reproached her in his heart.
But when heated with the work, and seeing Veslovsky pulling at the splashboard so strenuously and zealously that he actually wrenched it off, Levin reproached himself with being influenced by his sentiments of the previous day and with treating Veslovsky too coldly, and he tried to efface his unfriendliness by particular courtesy.
Not to depend on the Levins for that journey, Dolly sent to the village to hire horses; but Levin hearing of it came and reproached her.
The peasants asked him to let them some meadows at a reduced rent, I think, and he refused, and I reproached him with being stingy.
Sometimes in her heart she reproached him for not knowing how to live in town; at other times she confessed that it was really hard for him to arrange his life here satisfactorily.
The other letter was from his sister, who reproached him for not having settled her business yet.
She reproached herself now with the humiliation to which she had descended.
I don't understand how one can be so imprudent!' he reproached his wife in his vexation.
One day, when reproached about a Marchiennes nail-maker, she was furiously angry, exclaiming that she respected herself far too much, that she would cut her arm off if any one could boast that he had seen her with any one but a collier.
The strikers detested this official; they reproached him with deceiving them by the promise of a conciliatory intervention, which was limited to a march of troops into Montsou every week, to overawe them.
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat, and he reproached himself with not loving her.
But a more serious fault with which he reproached Justin was his constantly listening to conversation.
He reproached himself with forgetting Emma, as if, all his thoughts belonging to this woman, it was robbing her of something not to be constantly thinking of her.
At last Leon swore he would not see Emma again, and he reproached himself with not having kept his word, considering all the worry and lectures this woman might still draw down upon him, without reckoning the jokes made by his companions as they sat round the stove in the morning.
At times he thought he felt nothing more, and he enjoyed this lull in his pain, whilst at the same time he reproached himself for being a wretch.
Madame de Renal, transported by the joy of being in love, was so ignorant that she hardly reproached herself at all.
Julien had too often reproached himself for having allowed the former insult to pass unpunished to tolerate this stare.
This personage, who was invited to speak first, before the Duke ('but what Duke?'Julien asked himself), apparently to express opinions and to perform the functions of Attorney General, appeared to Julien to fall into the uncertainty and absence of definite conclusions with which those officers are often reproached.
K. found the painter's work more engrossing than he had wanted; but finally he reproached himself for staying so long without having done anything relevant to his own affair.
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