expostulate

expostulate with sb. about sth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

" 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.