Example Sentences

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For years U.S. advisers had been scolding the Turkish government for trying to expand too far too fast and warning the Turks that they were scaring investors away.

From Time Magazine Archive

All morning my mother had been scolding me, telling me to keep still, warning me that I must make no noise.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

Permit me to be your cicerone over Le Bocage, instead of Miss Edna here, who looks as if she had been scolding you.

From St. Elmo by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

Mr Seagrave, who was aware what an alarm this would produce on board the vessel, had been scolding him soundly, and now Master Tommy was crying, to prove how very penitent he was.

From Masterman Ready The Wreck of the "Pacific" by Marryat, Frederick

She had been scolding to Betty about people having no thought or care as to how they put back the work with their late breakfast.

From A Little Girl in Old Boston by Douglas, Amanda Minnie