Sentence examples for to be scolded from inspiring English sources
The dogs are gods to be scolded.
The Marinos don't need to be scolded.
"I didn't need to be scolded.
Bosses have been summoned to Washington to be scolded on live television.
He did not want to be scolded for endangering himself or harming company property.
Neither, he added, is the game meant to be scolding or didactic.
After President Obama's first years in office, the trio seemed to lose some of its power on foreign policy issues, and often appeared to be scolding the administration rather than seeking bipartisan policy solutions.
Thus, the author concluded that the dogs' behaviour is best interpreted as the dogs' fear-response to being scolded (Horowitz, 2009).
While dog owners claim that their dogs' greeting behaviour after having performed a misdeed indicates the dogs'guilt't', current experimental evidence suggests that dogs show these 'guilty look' behaviours as a response to being scolded by their owners.
Horowitz (2009) found some indication that dogs'guiltyty look' behaviours might be affected by whether they themselves had eaten a 'forbidden' food item or whether it had been removed by the experimenter because dogs showed a more intense 'guilty look' response to being scolded in the latter case.
