scold
verb (used with object)
will be scolding
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future progressiveof scold.future progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that will be taking place in the future.
Example Sentences
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“See, Matilda? I was right. We have no cause to run out of the city like children scared by a ghost. Lucille will be scolding us by sunrise,” he chuckled.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Next week she will be scolding us all with double energy.
From Lady Rose's Daughter by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Come back quickly, Tihon dear, or mamma will be scolding again.
From The Storm by Constance Garnett
Kedzie will be scolding her children or her grandchildren and telling them that in her day little girls did not speak disrespectfully to their parents or run away from them or do immodest, forward things.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
"Hush thee, child; thou must not speak more now, or the doctor will be scolding me."
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black
