Use "expostulate" in a sentence

1. He turned indignantly to expostulate, but a muscular sergeant added insult to injury, by seizing a stool and squatting him forcibly down upon it

2. “Why don't you see this concept deprecate the value of life itself?” said the swamiji, as a prelude to expostulate his theory of moksha

3. He ventured to expostulate, and demand why he should be treated more rigorously than the other captives

4. I therefore began mildly to expostulate with him

5. Venables began to expostulate; and this woman, proud of his confidence, to second him

6. She began to expostulate with her jailor; but he sternly bade her "Be silent--he had not gone so far, not to go further

7. He went as the deputy of some missionary society to preach in the neighbourhood of Trantridge, a place forty miles from here, and made it his business to expostulate with a lax young cynic he met with somewhere about there—son of some landowner up that way—and who has a mother afflicted with blindness

8. Tess attempted to expostulate, but at this juncture all her fluency

9. He has at present such a quantity that I have had myself to expostulate

10. Sometimes, when the day was very unfavourable, his sisters would expostulate

11. Then D'Arnot would expostulate with him, saying:

12. Yet how could he argue and expostulate against himself? How arraign Sam of harboring murderous designs which he had himself implanted in his bosom? How, indeed, expect him to comprehend conversation so entirely foreign to his experience? It was an awkward dilemma