Sentence examples for reprimand us from inspiring English sources

My point is that the idea of God using natural disasters to reprimand us reminds me of some petulant child who destroys all his toys because one might be broken, leaving a careless, indiscriminate wake of carnage.

In the end, it fell to knightinarmour to reprimand us for our terrifying tale.

A gentleman from the Consolidated Gas Company had been in to reprimand us for our story about Henri Charpentier and the electric grill, which he says distorted the facts and was a severe blow to the electrical equipment world.

An equally delinquent friend of mine insists there is deep pathology at work here, and that our real fear, rooted in childhood, is that a "father figure" will reprimand us for having spent too much money.

The New Yorker, June 30 , 1934P. 9 A gentleman from the Consolidated Gas Company had been in to reprimand us for our story about Henri Charpentier and the electric grill, which he says distorted the facts and was a severe blow to the electrical equipment world.

She did not reprimand us at all when we provided wrong answers.

Two hours later, an anxious local guide found and reprimanded us.

The guide reprimanded us for endangering our lives and delaying the others.

Remarkably he manages to say all this without once sounding like he's reprimanding us.

"I remember him reprimanding us for signing our names on autographs sloppily," said Bill Conaty, who played for Williams in Buffalo before retiring and becoming a lawyer.

They did not tease us, the boys, any more; they reprimanded us sharply, saying, "You better be thinking about your soul!" For the girls also saw the evidence on the Avenue, knew what the price would be, for them, of one misstep, knew that they had to be protected and that we were the only protection there was.