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Example sentences for: scold

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At the top of his short hate list resides popular scold William Bennett.
The auteur theory was quickly challenged, most notably by Pauline Kael, who shredded Sarris in the pages of Film Quarterly . But the "new Hollywood" of the '70s--with Kael as its champion, scold, and Cassandra--was dominated by young directors who attained, thanks to the collapse of the old studios, an unprecedented degree of creative autonomy, and who thought of themselves as artists.
It's not to scold investors.
"When he was late and his mother stood waiting in the doorway, she always seemed to swell, filling the doorframe, to obstruct and delay him, so that she could bulk against his approaching face and scold him.
Apparently, I protested loudly enough for my aunt to take note because she tried to console and scold me in that double tone that proverbs have.