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Example sentences for: scolding

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

(Dorothy scolding the Wizard, after he admitted he was a fraud.)
But to criticize Dunlap for his cruelty is akin to scolding a lion for killing an antelope.
It could be a hypocoristic or baby-talk form of hysterical , or it might be from the imitative word hiss ; or perhaps it is a variant of another dialect term, jesse , meaning a `severe scolding,' which is probably from a Biblical allusion.
A scolding woman was said to give her husband a dish of tongues, and the old Sussex bachelor often gave crisp reasons for staying single: one went on record as saying Mesel, I ain't no marryin' man, fer I can't see naun in givin' 'arf yer grub away ter get t' other 'arf cooked.
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