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Example sentences for: scold

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"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.
It's not to scold investors.
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.
A pair of articles catalog Mexico's drug corruption--especially its crooked drug czar--and scold the Clinton administration for ignoring it.
Some have been retained by becoming standard, often because there is no other convenient or adequately descriptive standard term for the same thing, like Charley horse for a leg cramp; others are genuinely standard words but were applied in a slang context, like chassis for a woman's body; many are not frequent enough to have bored their users sufficiently to drop them, like chew out for scold; some might have been dropped by those who are in, only to be picked up by the squares to make themselves appear to be in, like cheeba for (a) cannabis (cigarette).