How to Use reproach in a Sentence

reproach

noun

• She looked at him with reproach.
• His conduct has brought shame and reproach to his family.
• Accusations and reproaches from both parties made it difficult to pursue discussions.
• There’s the tyranny of clean and, atop that, the specter of reproach.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2021
• But the mood in the room was downbeat and his friends’ questions were full of reproach.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• To be sure, the goings-on at the hotel were not beyond reproach.
  — oregonlive, 3 Feb. 2022
• Moshe wanted to be beyond reproach in his work with the Mishkan.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 5 Mar. 2018
• The Nameless One goes to see him, and the archbishop greets him with a stern reproach for his evil life.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• To pass and accept a plus score would be beyond reproach.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2017
• Femme enough for his mother to treat his mere presence like a reproach.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2022
• Bigelow’s Sphinx is far from perfect, far from above reproach.
  — Colin Dickey, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2017
• Brewers go all in Hindsight tells you the trade was beyond reproach.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2020
• The loss wasn’t just about Shanahan’s once-beyond-reproach play-calling.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2021
• The bitter tears of self reproach made my chances of my own recovery feel …unattainable.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• His son suffers from severe autism, a condition which struck Markram as a reproach as well as a tragedy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2021
• For the past 35 seasons, the position has been held by only four men, all beyond reproach.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• If Perdue and Loeffler lose theirs, maybe that will be the example the rest of them need to keep their stock trading above reproach.
  — Joe Nocera Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 7 Dec. 2020
• First, pick a replacement for Comey that is beyond reproach.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 11 May 2017
• At the same time, her basketball acumen and ability to teach the game are beyond reproach.
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• Here was so much competence, so much courage, and for a purpose beyond reproach.
  — Bucky McMahon, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2017
• The Teamsters, which also has a long-running labor dispute with McKesson, aren’t alone in their reproach.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 11 July 2017
• Meanwhile, her husband-to-be is above reproach regardless of the outcome.
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
• The chief said that given the climate around law enforcement, the police department needs to be above reproach.
  — The Daily Astorian, oregonlive, 18 June 2020
• The record is a reproach to a nation that can call upon the greatest wealth and most advanced technical knowledge on the planet.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2021
• Zdeno Chara, 42 years old and playing with a broken jaw, is beyond reproach.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
• Boredom is a normal feeling, and there's no truth in the reproach that only boring people get bored.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 7 May 2020
• Moses wanted to be beyond reproach in his work with the Tabernacle (Midrash Tanchuma).
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2023
• When not to be receives reproach of being, / And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed / Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.
  — Nicole Silverberg, GQ, 30 May 2018
• That’s not a defense of Newsom, who is hardly beyond reproach.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2021
• Her boss, another older White man, told her to ignore the reproach and keep shining.
  — Nicole Gaouette, CNN, 6 May 2021

Last Updated: 9 May 2024