Example sentences for: scolded

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

  • historians, Greenblatt scolded, know that the sonnet, like 125 others, was in all likelihood written to a young man.

  • He never scolded 'bout naything else.

  • After losing his appeal and being scolded by the appeals court judges, he tried to appeal to the Supreme Court.

  • "There is still a world of difference between speaking to a political forum in Washington and at an Asian banquet where you are the guest," scolded an SCMP editorial, adding that Gore's criticism of the Malaysian government for imprisoning former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has probably "sharpened the divide" between Asian countries and the United States.

  • The WP lead reports that in separate meetings Secretary of State Albright privately scolded Israel and Palestinian leaders, telling them she is "sick and tired of hearing you give me a pile full of complaints about the other guy."


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