Sentence examples for a scold for from inspiring English sources

You feel a little like a scold for wanting it to buckle down and concentrate.

MAGAZINE A Scold for the Street With Alan Greenspan no longer complaining about "irrational exuberance," it has fallen to a Yale economist to make the case that the markets are crazy.

This book has gotten a bit of a scolding for being "too similar" to Harry Potter.

It was no doubt hard for some of them to accept a scolding for treating "name calling as reasoned debate" — a phrase in his Monday address — from a man who won re-election by excoriating Mitt Romney as a job-killing plutocrat.

The most recent ruling could be read as a scolding: "For over thirty years, the Agency has been confronted with evidence of the human health risks associated with the widespread subtherapeutic use of antibiotics in food-producing animals, and, despite a statutory mandate to ensure the safety of animal drugs, the Agency has done shockingly little to address these risks".

I was expecting a scolding for dozing off, but this meeting changed my life forever.

It was a tense time and my suggestion to call a fourth shareholder was met with a scolding for being "tenatious".

After a phone call to my OB and a scolding for drinking orange juice because it "likely just spiked my sugar and that's why you probably feel funny," I walked across through Lenox Hill Hospital to MFM (Maternal Fetal Medicine) where I got monitored all afternoon.

Manuel avoided a scolding from his bosses for the wisecrack, just as he has largely evaded criticism for the way this season has deteriorated.

I waited, bristling, for a scolding from my inner voice.

But maybe "emptiness" is just a scold's word for fiction.