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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of expostulate.

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Examples

  • He thought every thing was to be feared from the present state of the affair, and proposed revealing at once all he knew of it to Mr. Tyrold: but Camilla desired him to take no step till she had again expostulated with her sister, who might else be seriously hurt or offended.

    Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

  • I expostulated, you advance the fact that it is your ship as though it were a moral right.

    Chapter 34 2010

  • "Here," Billy expostulated at last, taking hold of the axe.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • "For the love of God, Sigmund, shut up!" expostulated one of the men.

    WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS 2010

  • He responded to our “open hand” by holding a press conference with the president of Iran, during which the latter expostulated on his dream of a future Middle East “without Zionists and without colonialists”.

    Latin America 2010

  • He responded to our “open hand” by holding a press conference with the president of Iran, during which the latter expostulated on his dream of a future Middle East “without Zionists and without colonialists”.

    Britain 2010

  • He responded to our “open hand” by holding a press conference with the president of Iran, during which the latter expostulated on his dream of a future Middle East “without Zionists and without colonialists”.

    Why Bother Being America’s Friend? 2010

  • He responded to our “open hand” by holding a press conference with the president of Iran, during which the latter expostulated on his dream of a future Middle East “without Zionists and without colonialists”.

    Stromata Blog 2010

  • He responded to our “open hand” by holding a press conference with the president of Iran, during which the latter expostulated on his dream of a future Middle East “without Zionists and without colonialists”.

    War on Terror 2010

  • He responded to our “open hand” by holding a press conference with the president of Iran, during which the latter expostulated on his dream of a future Middle East “without Zionists and without colonialists”.

    Stromata Blog: 2010

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  • She expostulated in another language. -Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas

    December 11, 2010