reproof

How To Use reproof In A Sentence

• Thrice a day, the performers have been taking to the stage under the massive fireproof tents, which can accommodate up to 2,500 viewers.
• High-quality sprinkler systems and new fireproof roofing materials, for example, can reduce the chance of fire.
• Reproof with threats sore terror, frightful malison. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Company after company dashed into the blazing "fireproof" building, urged by the hoarse profanity of the chief. The Poisoned Pen
• A smart reproof is better than smooth deceit.
• Timber lobbyists and foresters say thin out some national forests as a means of fireproofing them and preventing more superfires; that means cutting trees - lots of them.
• At home there was always a clean shirt and a pair of cottonade pantaloons waiting for him, and nothing but a "Well, Jim!" by way of reproof. The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys
• Wherefore do thou write him a letter and chide him angrily and spare him no manner of reproof, but threaten him with dreadful threats and menace him with death and say to him, ‘Whence hast thou knowledge of me, that thou durst write me, O dog of a merchant, O thou who trudgest far and wide all thy days in wilds and wolds for the sake of gaining a dirham or a dinar? The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• [Illustration: page226] and this passage particularly seems to be a reproof to man, who, while with his domestic animals he is curious to improve the race, by employing always the finest male, pays no attention to the improvement of his own race, but intermarries with the vicious, the ugly, or the old, for considerations of wealth or ambition. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
• We had to fireproof the building, putting in fire doors and fire lights as we have over 30 kids here and we're open most of the day.