Sentence examples for scolding in from inspiring English sources

He said Mr. bin Laden took the scolding in stride.

Goodell should have been giving Brady a fine or a scolding in an office meeting this summer.

And when I asked him about the business of contemporary art, he delivered a mild scolding in the form of an hour-long lecture.

But she seems just as comfortable among the mostly poor families she sees in her examination room: laughing, gossiping, hugging, and scolding, in Spanish as well as in English, in a full-throated alto that echoes down the hall.

12 China Evades Rights Scolding In debate at the annual session of the main United Nations human rights forum, which ended on Friday, China emerged free of condemnation of its human rights record while Russia and others were chastised.

Juan Antonio Samaranch delivered a highly uncharacteristic public scolding in 2000, saying that Athens was now operating on a yellow caution light, but he did not follow what may have been his instincts, to take the Games away.

She took the semi-scolding in stride because she looked at those four days away in a different light than her children did.

"Aïe, Pollux!" she scolded in French.

"Then you start getting scolded in front of others.

She becomes a political scold in her most serious moments.

Dessie scolds in a charming way, Snitch flatters.