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Example sentences for: hectored

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His predecessor as Pacers coach, Larry Brown, hectored and nit-picked in practices and games.
He hectored friends and publishers for money, repaid people's love for him with cold neglect, and followed up on A Fan's Notes with two sequels, neither of which the critics deemed interesting.
It was part of a total package that included not only the golden shiksas but their brothers ("engaging, good-natured, confident, clean, swift, and powerful halfbacks"), their fathers ("men with white hair and deep voices"), their mothers who never whined or hectored, their curtained, fireplaced houses, their small noses, their lack of constant nagging worry--in short, the normalcy and confidence that go along with belonging, with being on the inside.