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Example sentences for: berates

How can you use “berates” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Newsweek berates Madeleine Albright as "a cold warrior caught in the wrong decade."
Ashcroft regularly berates the Republican Congress for having "cut and run" rather than having tackled tough moral issues.
A review of Boutros Boutros-Ghali's new memoir berates the former U.N. secretary-general for his arrogance and condescension.
Jim Saxton, R-N.J., jumps up and down in his chair "like a schoolboy" and crudely berates Reich while a bread-and-circuses audience laughs and applauds.
It also berates everyone, from early programmers to IBM to Microsoft to the Clinton administration, for lackadaisical response.