Sentence examples for was reprimanding from inspiring English sources
verb
To reprove in a formal or official way.
Actually, Martinez said he was reprimanding a fan, sitting in the front row with his young daughter, who was saying "all kinds of nasty things" to him.
Moments before she was killed, Melescha Francis argued with her fiancé, Larry Smith, because he was reprimanding her son, the police said.
Conversely, in Latin, both Dominus servos vituperabat and Servos vituperabat dominus mean "the master was reprimanding the slaves", because servos, or "slaves", is in the accusative case, showing that they are the grammatical object of the sentence, and dominus, or "master", is in the nominative case, showing that he is the subject.
He was reprimanded and released.
Mr. Neilson was reprimanded, he said.
He was reprimanded and immediately apologised.
She was reprimanded but not suspended.
But the supervisor was "reprimanded for interfering".
Instead, he was reprimanded in a letter.
He was reprimanded by the BBC.
The star was reprimanded by producers for using homophobic language.
