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Example sentences for: scold

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It is jacketed with the sober brown paper that covered The Book of Virtues , and it seems a calculating attempt by Bennett to secure his franchise as America's scold in chief.
"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.
A pair of articles catalog Mexico's drug corruption--especially its crooked drug czar--and scold the Clinton administration for ignoring it.
That makes 10) Errors of Fact . But more to the point, is there anybody who thinks that Steve Brill, back before he was a press scold, would have passed up the chance to hear those tapes?
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.