Sentence examples for of a scolding from inspiring English sources

He was cowering like a dog in the middle of a scolding.

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

She was also naively, disarmingly candid — a lovely vamp who invites laughter instead of a scolding.

The affianced, in turn, are not children in need of a scolding, but are both 29-years-old.

In his scraped-up crackle of a voice he sang about America as if it were a mischievous, exhausting child in need of a scolding.

I was half an hour late, having got lost on the way here, and I felt as deserving of a scolding as a schoolboy.

And sometimes he can seem like a bit of a scold.

In one bus ad, Archie turns, a bit uncharacteristically, into somewhat of a scold.

It is the job of a scold, but he has been with ITER for two decades, and, like many people who build tokamaks, he came to the project with a sense of mission.

(I'm enough of a scold to say, Look at the terrible things George did to the inner cities, laid waste by crack cocaine — but there is no mention of such damage in "Blow").

If Minow is something of a scold, it could be because public service runs in her genes.