Sentence examples for telling-off from inspiring English sources

JP Morgan got a milder telling-off.

Ganguly gives him a good telling-off.

I got a row, a proper telling-off.

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

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.

The first telling off came within minutes.

People need a good telling off sometimes".

"It's like a parent telling off their children.

There was an Asian dad telling off his three boys.

"I could do with a bit less telling off, but there you go".