Example Sentences

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He will ask employees or friends who are putting sugar in coffee or milk in tea why they want to kill themselves and will upbraid people leaving healthful food unfinished about the vitamins they’re squandering.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2011

He must show us his justice, who made us; He must place sin where sin was conceived; We must know if man's God will upbraid us Because we both loved and believed.

From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Victor, Frances Fuller

Sir 18:18 A fool will upbraid churlishly, and a gift of the envious consumeth the eyes.

From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

Thus hope misleads itself in pleasant way, And takes more joys on trust, than love can pay: But, love with long possession once decayed, That face, which now you court, you will upbraid.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir

He is hurried on by these people; and then it will break up, and the poor people will be ruined, and they will upbraid him, and yet he will not be a whit the better.

From The Marriage of Elinor by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)