Example Sentences

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You are scolding someone else for using Twitter for shameless self-promotion?

From Washington Times • Dec. 31, 2017

She returns to the surface, laughing, and it looks like the lifeguards are scolding her, but she doesn’t care.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

"These girls are scolding me like everything, and I want you to come and fight for me."

From Half a Dozen Girls by Ray, Anna Chapin

The politicians are scolding, and the newspapers are scolding, and most of the fellows I know are scolding.

From The Beauty and the Bolshevist by Miller, Alice Duer

I wonder what you will say when you are scolding me, Sheila, and bidding me get out of the house?

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 by Various