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Example sentences for: scold

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

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.
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).
At the top of his short hate list resides popular scold William Bennett.
A pair of articles catalog Mexico's drug corruption--especially its crooked drug czar--and scold the Clinton administration for ignoring it.
Many scold Ross for publishing her memoir while Shawn's 92-year-old widow is still alive.