scoldings

Example Sentences

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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

But dropping the emergency footing and repeated scoldings could also mean fewer people get the shots.

From Washington Times • Oct. 12, 2023

Born in Freeport, Ill., on Jan. 21, 1946, he attended Catholic schools for 16 years, receiving plenty of scoldings from the nuns.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 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 remember being punished— sent to my room without dinner, deprived of this or that, firm scoldings.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth