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How to use scold in a sentence

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Somehow he could never tell her off or scold her when she looked at him like that.
They all started to scold me for something which was totally none of their business.
I had thought that if I caught her off guard then she would take notice and try to scold me.
You can't afford to be so oblivious, she'd scold, or you're liable to waltz right into trouble.
He was also very hungry and Marion went outside to scold the maids for not remembering to bring him food at mealtimes.
Tim would probably enter my room any second now to scold me for listening in to his private calls.
The cow, forgetting about me for the moment, turned, purple with fury, to scold the person in question.
My daughter will scold me if I swear in front of her though, so she's keeping me in line.
People in my riding would certainly scold me if I did not ask you a specific question.
For your remarks to be received positively, it is essential that you neither blame the patient nor scold him or her in any way.
And then I wonder if I would be such a scold with my patients about any other issue.
He did not scold me in spite of my not paying him any notice whatsoever for all those years.
Rose would scold her about ruining her frock, Bethamy would be in a fluster about how unsafe it was and Elizabeth would want her to come down before they had a fight about it.
Regardless of the age of the husband, the relatives give themselves the right to discipline him, scold, restrain, monitor, and embarrass him in public.
Ready to scold you at the slightest hint of long-windedness or superfluous complexity.
When another priest prayed, and the children started playing around, he would scold them.
It is best to instruct and enlighten without being a scold, braggart or prig.
The United States, which used to scold the Europeans for their reluctance, is uncomfortable with Turkey's newly adventurous foreign policy.
My mother used to scold me every day because she did not like to see me singing at this young age.
I do not scold new, inexperienced members for this kind of thing, but you know better. You used the Prime Minister's last name.
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Examples from Classical Literature
When he returned to me from that mad trip to the Balearic Islands I had not the heart to scold.
Xanthippe has acquired the reputation of being the typical scold of antiquity.
Marianne, recognizing how serious was the transgression, wished to scold him.
Shall I have to scold my coadjutor, or to reason with an intellect like this?
For, had I done't, whene'er she'd scold me, She'd make the heavens too hot to hold me.
Well, it is getting late, and I am keeping you up, and then Doreen will scold me.
She did not scold Philip for finding Gino out, as she might reasonably have done.
I am never called anything but Mollie, except when I overspend my allowance, and mother feels it her duty to scold me.
How would you have me scold him when he weeps over it all with me?
It doesn't do any good to scold the janitor about our cold rooms.
We scold it caressingly, as one reproves the overplay of a gracious child.
I should scold her myself, if she were capable of wishing to check the delight of your conversation with our new friend.
I shall begin to assert the privileges of a mother-in-law, if you go on like that, and scold you.
On his return he asked the parrot what had happened during his absence, and the parrot told him some things which made him scold his wife.
It has never been my way to scold or chide thee, yet always hath my heart ached for each crime laid at the door of Norman of Torn.
You're late, you lot of Failings, and the kinglet will scold.
Whenever Xanthippe was angry, she used to scold poor Socrates roundly.
That time the aunties did actually scold me, or pretty nearly that.
Debby was very good to me, for she never stopped to scold, but laid me down on the old sofa, and bound up my poor little feet with oil and cotton wool.
She does not scold at all, and always calls me Miss Margaret, which is quite proper, you know, and treats me with respect.Miss Meg is going to make a proper good housekeeper.
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