How to Use admonition in a Sentence

admonition

noun
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  • He offered words of advice and admonition.
  • What's hard is to feel the storm rise and yet, obey that hard admonition.
    — Author: Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Sep. 2017
  • All of these movies, the good and the not so good, are prime candidates for my late lunch admonition.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2020
  • The admonition was invoked in just six of the 69 cases.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, azcentral, 31 July 2019
  • And that is a good admonition and a good warning to all of our friends in law enforcement.
    — Fox News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Each session starts with an admonition to make sure the door is closed in case someone tips off the police.
    — Alec Luhn / Moscow, Time, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The way these three mock parental admonitions is spot-on satire, and alive with affection.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2023
  • And there would not be an admonition for all to rise for Aaron Judge if his adoptive parents had been named Jones.
    — Billy Witz, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
  • As my dentist told me with only the scarcest possible note of admonition, the best time to go to the dentist is now.
    — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2021
  • And all surfers know the admonition about going out with a buddy, or at least when there are others in the water.
    — Mylène Dressler, Longreads, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Ornstein told him to stay in shape, run sprints, stay out of trouble, the usual admonitions.
    — Chadd Cripe, idahostatesman, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Roden wasn’t sure about the Arizona admonition to turn off your lights.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2021
  • But, shorn of their powers, their admonitions lack teeth, and women now shrug them off.
    — Washington Post, 17 June 2018
  • Cheryl Crowe said out loud, drawing an admonition from a bailiff.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 May 2017
  • Your suggestions were valid, and the admonition to shower before work was good, but that may not be enough.
    — cleveland, 24 May 2021
  • This incident is a harsh admonition that there is so much more work to be done and many more barriers to break down.
    — Delbert Whetter, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2023
  • McKissic said the admonitions in that verse, and 1 Timothy 2:12, have been misused.
    — al.com, 10 June 2019
  • Besides writing diss tracks to their haters, the group produced a gentle admonition to their fans.
    — Kat Moon, Time, 19 Feb. 2020
  • To protect our health, admonitions to stay inside won’t be enough.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 25 June 2023
  • Alicia Sanchez Gill saw one of her old tweets, which urged people to stop using the book as an admonition, resurface.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2022
  • For now, the regime is seeking to quash the demonstrations with riot police and admonitions to the protesters to go home.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The video shows only the back of a young woman’s head while the headphones bombard us with admonitions, English in one ear, Chinese in the other.
    — Thomas Hine, Philly.com, 21 June 2018
  • The list of rules for riders includes admonitions to remain seated and to hold onto the raft handles at all times.
    — Matt Campbell robert A. Cronkleton and Eric Adler, kansascity, 7 Aug. 2016
  • Because these are the simplest of recipes, please heed the admonition to use only the very best ingredients.
    — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 13 June 2020
  • The calendar is also in line with the Biblical admonition to rest on the seventh day, the Sabbath.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Despite the judge’s admonition on Thursday, the sides did not leap into each other’s arms.
    — Jeff Gammage, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
  • We’ve all been warned not to walk alone in certain parks, and sometimes those admonitions are justified.
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Goldberg’s admonition to the council: Think it through.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland.com, 17 June 2019
  • His admonition might have been to politicians and voters, but the media should pay close attention as well.
    — Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • This new world is in stark odds with previous NCAA admonitions that paying college athletes would destroy amateurism and morph college sports into minor league sports.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 12 June 2024

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