haranguein a sentence
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My parents continuously harangue me about my grades.harangue = annoyingly try to persuade or criticize
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She fears a Card Check law would permit unions to pester, harass and harangue employees who would lose the protection of a secret ballot.harangue = annoyingly try to persuade
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The class was subjected to a ten-minute harangue for not taking their homework more seriously.harangue = impassioned speech trying to change behavior
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The Bird leapt onto a perch over them and delivered his standard harangue: "You must be sober! You must be sincere! You must work for earnest! You must obey! I have spoken." (source)harangue = impassioned and critical lecture
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He also turned the tables and started lecturing the grandfatherly figure about the shortcomings of his sedentary existence, urging the eighty-year-old to sell most of his belongings, move out of the apartment, and live on the road. Franz took these harangues in stride and in fact delighted in the boy's company. (source)harangues = impassioned critical speeches
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But it did no good, all this fault laying, all these harangues of accusations bouncing in her head. (source)harangues = impassioned speeches
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Mrs. van D. and Dussel continued their harangue: "You know way too much about things you're not supposed to." (source)harangue = impassioned, annoying, critical speech
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The boys were harangued by a man in a full beard. (source)harangued = verbally harassed by someone trying to persuade them
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He'd smolder around the house for hours, grumbling and haranguing until he gnawed her patience down to shreds. (source)haranguing = criticizing in an impassioned and annoying manner
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They had lots to say about all kinds of junk they claimed to know something about, and would drone on in an instigated way, delivering themselves of harangues and oblique sermons that were in fact — Jimmy felt — aimed at himself.† (source)
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Turnus th' occasion takes, and cries aloud: "Talk on, ye quaint haranguers of the crowd: Declaim in praise of peace, when danger calls, And the fierce foes in arms approach the walls."† (source)
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And here she closed her harangue: a long one for her, and uttered with the demureness of a Quakeress. (source)harangue = impassioned speech
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From the middle of the barracks, he harangued us: (source)harangued = gave a tirade (emotionally charged speech) in an annoying manner
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Scott had been haranguing him about the previous evening on and off since they'd arrived at work that morning. (source)haranguing = annoying with impassioned speech
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Most went voluntarily, glad to be able to take a few of their possessions with them and relieved to escape the constant harangues and threats of the Nazis.† (source)
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Before I could answer he went into a harangue.† (source)
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