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"expostulate" Definitions
  1. (+ speech) to argue, disagree or protest about somethingTopics Opinion and argumentc2

8 Sentences With "expostulate"

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This year, organizers pared the guest list from 20153,500 applicants to a vital 350 catalysts from 43 countries who promised to engage, collaborate, expostulate, break bread — and break barriers.
They have come out of their way to find a doctor—not for themselves but as a useful addendum to Sanditon's delights, upon which Parker likes to expostulate, to the exclusion of every other theme: He could talk of it for ever.
My old pal would shout, scream, cackle, laugh, giggle, holler, preach his rule today, just as he used to expound, expostulate, rap it in the middle of campus parties, street crowds, into a mike, into your ear, into a garbage can while he was barfing.
Useless to argue with the tradesmen, to expostulate, to vituperate.
As soon as the ambassadors are gone, Polonius, saying he will not expostulate on the obvious, expostulates.
Stearn, 28 The Secretary of the Horticultural Society of London at that time was Joseph Sabine and he authorised expenditure on large projects beyond the Society's means. Lindley could only expostulate and was unsuccessful in moderating his actions. By 1830, the Society had mounting debts and a committee of enquiry was set up. Sabine resigned as Secretary and Lindley successfully defended his own position and carried the Society forward with the new Honorary Secretary, George Bentham.
It was an old-fashioned gate-saw, which went so slow that there seemed to be a sort of an excuse for putting in all the time when the water was up. Baldwin used to go to the mill Sundays and expostulate with his partner, and while arguing the matter (the mill running in the meantime), the sawyer would get him to help turn down the log and set the tail end for him. All these kind acts did not convert him and the partnership dissolved.
A comic sketch published in 1818 has a character expostulate: "Is it not ridiculous for us grown people to be going to see Mother Goose, Tom Thumb, Old Mother Hubbard, and suchlike infantile fooleries; or to misspend our time at pantomimes and at rope dancings?""The Hermit of London or Sketches of English Manners XVII", in The Literary Gazette 93, 31 October 1818, p.700 What kind of show contained those characters is not explained. It was not until a decade later that there was mention of a Christmas pantomime, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, that was "founded on the familiar nursery-tale of Old Mother Hubbard and her dog".

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