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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:

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.
If Bradley remained on the high road, emphasizing his positive message and ignoring the vice president's hectoring, the unanswered criticism would damage him.
Flytrap is a case of journalists doing precisely what press critics are always hectoring them to do--just supply the facts, don't indulge in opinion or conclusion--and shows the inadequacy of that journalistic ideal.
After 103 hectoring minutes of the movie, I wondered: What's wrong with Cruella De Vil?
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."