Sentence examples for this scolding from inspiring English sources

But, just to be on the safe side, all this scolding and warning and preparation are followed by a cave-in.

So reading this scolding of the president, one might indulge Moore's old-time religion and simply recall his happy visions of Christmas Eve.

He notes that this scolding from the UN is simply "yet another sign that pot prohibitionists are panicking".

Some of the more slovenly among us might bristle at this scolding old proverb, but to human evolution researchers it makes perfect sense.

I could worry about this tea scolding me, or gouging my eye out with this spoon," he says, raising a small silver teaspoon to eye level at an alarming speed.

This friendly scolding sparked in him an attraction to Dr. Sayre, said Dr. Meyer, who appreciated "her willingness to tell it to me straight".

In this case scolding or even mentioning inappropriateness may have quite the opposite effect.

This was the scold she'd been winding up for, and if he could endure it, and cop to it, there might be some release and clarity at the other end.

"You don't want to feel like you have this saintly scold hanging over your head".

When Tiger Woods played the hole, he was greeted by the large gallery with shouts of praise, but this group scolded him for consistently deciding not to play the Greater Hartford Open, with loud chants of "G.H.O., G.H.O".

"Why would you risk his health in this way?" scolded Dr. Suzie Tetang Moyo, sighing deeply in frustration when she saw the parents recently at her clinic on a dirt road here in this rural district north of the capital, Yaoundé.