Example Sentences

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You get scoldings for all sorts of things, and it’s one of the first things anyone who comes to train at Chozen-ji has to figure out how to deal with.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2024

There was no need to apologize to those fans who basked in The General’s epic on-camera scoldings of players and refs.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2023

They had a habit of stealing Shukkur’s unripe guavas, plums and mangoes whenever they visited, prompting scoldings from their grandfather.

From Washington Times • Jun. 6, 2023

But angry public scoldings have not had much effect on the two holdouts, and Biden’s private entreaties to Manchin this week seem to have done little to break the impasse.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2021

I would not let Sass’s scoldings touch me as they used to.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan