Sentence examples for a telling-off from inspiring English sources

The environmental-protection bureau in Beijing called Mr Pan in for a telling-off.

And he doesn't mean a telling-off in the head's study, either.

The piece was a personal essay — a telling-off, essentially — centered on an Upper East Side, high-society problem.

Then, the Turkish authorities limited themselves to expressing "disappointment" and calling in the Vatican's envoy for a telling-off.

'On the one hand we get letters from astronomers giving us a telling-off for interfering with their observations.

I won't be getting a telling-off from somebody behind me that I should have cleared it.

As the heated exchange simmered down, presenter Andrew Neil gave Mr Hayes a telling off.

"Should I go give that guy a telling off?" she asked.

It should be a conversation, a two-way dialogue, rather than a telling off.

Although Jayne is getting a bit of a telling off from him.

Barry Hearn didn't like it and gave me a little bit of a telling off, but that's tough.