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Example sentences for: hectoring

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

Through hours of hectoring, cheap shots, and generally ill-mannered behavior from the committee's Democrats, Starr kept his composure and courtesy.
Now, the white lines' dot and dash makes my hand less steady on the wheel, the stoplight glimmers a shade too red-- the faith I've never felt in the day to day haunts me like some imp-winged demon in a Bosch painting, its infantile, red-bawling face staring accusingly into my eyes as if it dared to fly beyond the gilt frame, hectoring, hovering, sluggish wings buzzing like the winter-hatched fly stumbling spastic against the dashboard dials, its frail internal compass somehow gone haywire overridden by spurts and shocks.
But the WP disagrees: "Aides said the president's aim was to avoid a lecture about human rights--which he felt the Chinese would dismiss as hectoring by an outsider."
After 103 hectoring minutes of the movie, I wondered: What's wrong with Cruella De Vil?
You would assume, from this onslaught of sartorial hectoring, that the staff of Slate must dress in exquisite taste.