How to Use admonition in a Sentence

admonition

noun

• 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
• Ross insists he was given no guidelines by Brady ahead of time and that the admonition was not that serious.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Reaching out Some in the church security field tell clients not to worry about any contradiction between the Biblical admonition to love one’s neighbor and the need to keep the worship environment safe.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024