Sentence for scold | Use scold in a sentence

Sentences using the word scold. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use scold in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for scold.

  • She might scold herself for the weakness, but there was no scolding it away. (4)
  • An old officer halted his staff to scold a citizen who had given him a mistaken direction. (9)
  • Rather let us turn and scold our nature for irreflectively rushing to the cream and honey! (10)
  • But when he began to scold me I lost my temper, and I gave him a few wholesome truths in the guise of taunts. (9)
  • She did her best to coax him and scold him into a share of the pleasure they were all beginning to have in New York. (9)
  • The first impulse of an ordinary woman would have been to reproach and scold; but Mrs. Amble succumbed only to the first impulse. (10)
  • I could not scold, there was something too lyrical in the return of that live, lonely, rushing piece of blackness through the blacker night. (8)
  • Fanny was ready and waiting, and Mrs. Norris was beginning to scold her for not being gone, and still no horse was announced, no Edmund appeared. (4)

Also see sentences for: blame, censure, chide, lash, rate, reprimand, reproach.

Definition of scold:

  • scold, skld, v.i. to rail in a loud and violent manner: to find fault. | v.t. to chide rudely: to rebuke in words. | n. a rude, clamorous woman: a termagant. | ns. scold’er; scold’ing, railing: a rating; scold’ing-stool, a cucking-stool. (0)

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