SCOLD in a Sentence
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107 example sentences for SCOLD, such as:
1. It's dreadful, but I can't scold him.
2. She was afraid you'd scold her if you knew.
3. She scolded the child for being late for school.
4. He did like it, so don't scold, Jo, said Beth meekly.
5. Will, drop round by the house this evening and scold me.
2. She was afraid you'd scold her if you knew.
3. She scolded the child for being late for school.
4. He did like it, so don't scold, Jo, said Beth meekly.
5. Will, drop round by the house this evening and scold me.
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Meanings and Examples of SCOLD
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scold
v. censure severely or angrily
n. someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
Classic Sentence: (99 in 7 pages)
1 And Gerald would scold and bawl but, for all his remarks of yesterday about not wanting her to marry Ashley, he would be pleased beyond words at an alliance between his family and the Wilkes.
2 Well, I knew it would take you back and I just want to ask you, Scarlett, don't you argue with her about it or scold her or laugh at her.
3 She was afraid you'd scold her if you knew.
4 I dream of Venice, and I live in Archangel and scold because the Northern seas aren't tender-colored.
5 Will, drop round by the house this evening and scold me.
6 The biggest coward I ever knew as called Lyon; and his wife, Patience, would scold you out of hearing in less time than a hunted deer would run a rod.
7 The colonel, perchance to relieve his feelings, began to scold like a wet parrot.
8 He did like it, so don't scold, Jo, said Beth meekly.
9 She does not scold at all, and always calls me Miss Margaret, which is quite proper, you know, and treats me with respect.
10 It's dreadful, but I can't scold him.
11 I can feed and nurse and pet and scold them, and Mother will be my stand-by.
12 Pray do not scold her," replied Ulysses; "she is not to blame.
13 Well, I reflected, there was never a pleasanter, or more harmless sight; and it will be a burning shame to scold them.
14 Elinor scolded him, harshly as ladies always scold the imprudence which compliments themselves, for having spent so much time with them at Norland, when he must have felt his own inconstancy.
15 Whether you scold me or approve of me," returned poor Biddy, "you may equally depend upon my trying to do all that lies in my power, here, at all times.
Example Sentence:
1 The widow she didn't scold, but only cleaned off the grease and clay, and looked so sorry that I thought I would behave awhile if I could.
2 Don't scold him too much; he is a child anyway.
3 WELL, I got a good going-over in the morning from old Miss Watson on account of my clothes; but the widow she didn't scold, but only cleaned off the grease and clay, and looked so sorry that I thought I would behave awhile if I could.
4 Art's teachers would scold you if you doodle all over the margins of papers.
5 The headmaster had made an example of him by scolding him in front of the whole school.
6 The teacher scolded the child for bad behavior, but the child then complained that she had been centered out.
7 She scolded the child for being late for school.
8 She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes.