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Example sentences for: berates

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A Washington Post editorial berates Elizabeth Dole for her ditzy stand on drug policy.
The United States berates China for human rights abuses and illicit transfer of defense technology; Chinese officials see U.S. policy as inconsistent and hypocritical--President Clinton has sent mixed messages about Taiwan and most favored nation status.
But the moment she berates the "privilege" of those who couldn't afford to make a down payment on her carriage house, or invokes the "greed" of those making 125 percent of the mean per capita income, I'm with Hick, who said to Eleanor during a White House dinner, "God damn it--none of us ought to be wearing velvet dinner gowns these days."
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.
An editorial berates the British government's proposal to eliminate trial by jury for several crimes including theft and weapons possession.