Sentence examples for told them off from inspiring English sources

Peggy told them off for messing about.

But other than one mysterious passer-by who told them off for "putting up a box" and then walked away, they have had no conflicts over their choices, they said.

At the end of the flight, he told them off, adding, "You girls should not be in first class!" Poehler, by now in a full-on "rage-haze", reeled back, "looked at his boring, rich-guy face" and shouted, "Fuck you!

The girls (Sterling) romped off, printed up T-shirts emblazoned with fluffy penguins, and set about selling them dynamically and semi-aggressively until a big man appeared and told them off, at which point they all looked at the floor like flimsy schoolgirls and mumbled "sorry".

In a 2009 interview, the actor told Reuters his children often referenced his own struggles with alcohol when he told them off for bad behaviour.

Despite answering from the East Coast, he told them off and, as he tells it, spooked them out of his neighborhood.

Paul Channon, British Secretary of State for Transport, lunched five journalists at the Garrick Club three months after Lockerbie and told them, off-the-record, that the Lockerbie killers had been identified and would soon be arrested.

How can I tell them off politely?

Maybe I shouldn't tell them off?

She tells them off for ruining their makeup.

Maybe I should tell them off more – who knows?