Sentence examples for they were scolding from inspiring English sources

They beat me on legs ("kaalige hodithara")… they were scolding ("bayyodu") me with harsh words taking my parents' names".

I understood that people were feeling unmotivated by the homily, feeling like they were scolded".

They were scolded and fined 501 rupees, or about $12, a pinching sum here.

Last week they were scolded by President Thomas Klestil, who warned that their failure to agree might force a new election.

There is something in the intellectual psyche that is vaguely masochistic, and so I think some literature buffs derived a frisson of pleasure from being paid attention to, even if they were scolded.

When a group of NBC staff members in New York poked fun at her for delivering a report with heavy dramatic flair one night, they were scolded by Tom Brokaw, the anchor of the "NBC Nightly News".

They were scolded but no one is demanding the money be paid back.

(They were scolded by the manager the day after the 2016 election when one of them bought in a Trump poster and put it on the table, Russo says).

Don't talk back to them if they are scolding you, because they probably have a good reason.

"In the managerial ideology," Whyte writes, "it is not the leaders of industry that are idealized — if anything, they are scolded — but the lieutenants".

Mr. Hynes responded to the ruling with what some lawyers said was a breach of an ethic of restraint that usually keeps prosecutors quiet when they are scolded by judges.