expostulate

[EE. UU.]/ɪkˈspɒstʃuleɪt/
[Reino Unido]/ɪkˈspɑːstʃuleɪt/
Frecuencia: Muy alto

Traducción

vi. remonstrar; disuadir
n. disuasión; remonstrancia

Frases y colocaciones

expostulate vehemently

expostular vehemente

expostulate with someone

expostular con alguien

Oraciones de ejemplo

expostulate with sb. about sth.

reprender a alguien sobre algo

Didn’t I ever expostulate with you on the subject?

¿Acaso no te he reprendido sobre el tema alguna vez?

They expostulate with him about the risk involve in his plan.

Le reprendieron por el riesgo involucrado en su plan.

She expostulate with her husband about his habit of smoking in bed.

Le reprendió a su esposo por su hábito de fumar en la cama.

The father expostulate with his son about the foolishness of leaving school.

El padre le reprendió a su hijo por la insensatez de dejar la escuela.

Her parents expostulated with her on the foolhardiness of her behavior. See also Synonyms at intention

Sus padres la reprendieron por la temeridad de su comportamiento. Ver también Sinónimos en intención

Ejemplos del mundo real

'It is not on that account, indeed, ' Elfride expostulated.

Fuente: A pair of blue eyes (Part 1)

" Now, now" ! Mrs. Adams interrupted, expostulating mournfully.

Fuente: Lonely Heart (Part 2)

Pray leave me, Mrs. Jethway'. The girl only expostulated now.

Fuente: A pair of blue eyes (Part 2)

Sometimes, when the day was very unfavourable, his sisters would expostulate.

Fuente: Jane Eyre (Original Version)

" No, no-don't say I should change" ! he expostulated; yet there was misgiving in his own voice also.

Fuente: The Unnamed Jude (Middle)

" But you must have known, " I expostulated. " You were taken up to see her this afternoon" .

Fuente: Murder at the golf course

I expostulated with him, but in vain; neither would he so much as tell me who their new captain was.

Fuente: Gulliver's Travels (Original Version)

He might have been a doctor summoning the next patient from the waiting-room, a hysterical patient who had been expostulating feebly with a nurse.

Fuente: Casino Royale of the 007 series

But even before these sounds arose, the ladies looked at one another stunned. For the drunken voices expostulating with Rhett were those of Ashley and Hugh Elsing.

Fuente: Gone with the Wind

" But she's such a sweet woman, " Mrs. Bradley expostulated, as though it were very hoity-toity of me not to know that royal personage.

Fuente: Blade (Part 1)

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