Example Sentences

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Said woman, who seems to have taken the video herself, is haranguing employees at a grocery store who won't let her in without a mask.

From Salon • May 18, 2020

As “The Fall of the American Empire” opens, he is haranguing his girlfriend, a bank teller, about the intellectual poverty of novelists, philosophers and especially politicians.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2019

One moment he is haranguing the revolutionary tribunal, the next he is arguing that life is a burden.

From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2010

White as a sheet, Mr. Longcluse, in high excitement, is haranguing in the smoking-room, mounted on a table.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Mayor Petion has arrived; is haranguing, 'lifted on the shoulders of two Grenadiers.'

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas