Sentence examples for scold with from inspiring English sources

In office, he was a scold with his family values campaign for public morality and a record of dismissing ministers caught in sex scandals.

In New York, Dr. Frieden came under fire for, according to some critics, acting like a nanny and a scold with campaigns to ban trans fats, post calorie counts in chain restaurants, reduce salt in processed food and tax high-calorie sodas.

If Perry can project a relationship with Obama of fruitful contrariness – I don't like you, but I'll deal with you if I have to – he will have hit on an enviable political sweet spot where he can be neither faulted by the hard right for being too much in the president's pocket nor written off as an obstructionist scold with a legislative resumé written largely in the language of "No".

"Al!" she scolded, with a smile.

"Don't confuse that now," Martinez gently scolded with humor.

Speaking on Friday in Winnipeg, Justin Trudeau said his government had addressed the public scolding with China.

The recorded version works by being casual, replacing Britney's schizo blend of flirting and scolding with a cold splash of "Whatever".

Journalists – famous for their horror of swearing, of course – have tutted and scolded, with many a reference to the "lout" and his "tirade of abuse".

Mr Clinton mixed his mild scolding with elaborate assurances that he understood Russia's dilemma as it "faced rebellion within, and violence beyond, the borders of Chechnya".

The bright spot is the twice-Oscar-nominated Blethyn, who squawks and scolds with delightful brio, at no expense to her character's latent pain.

Fans of writers do quite a bit of writing themselves, penning letters to their idols that are by turns adoring and scolding, with pleas for autographs, locks of hair, and the secrets of literary success.