berate

Example Sentences

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If the requested videos and photos were not sent instantly, multiple women in the exposé claimed D’Elia would become enraged and berate them.

From Los Angeles Times

Liverpool boss Klopp was given a one-match ban after he was sent off against Manchester City in October for berating the referee's assistant.

From BBC

Earlier this month he berated Interior Secretary Deb Haaland over it during an Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, saying she was “giving radicals a new tool to shut out the public.”

From Seattle Times

By 2018, Mr. Trump — along with Jeff Sessions, the hard-line anti-immigration former senator who was attorney general at the time — was frequently berating his cabinet secretaries over the number of illegal border crossings still happening.

From New York Times

They allow players berating them, openly, and refuse to call technicals.

From Los Angeles Times