Sample Sentences forupbraid (editor-reviewed)
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After the lab accident, the teacher upbraided her for ignoring the safety rules.upbraided = harshly scolded or criticized
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Indeed, Chris had only recently upbraided Walt and Billie for expressing their desire to buy him a new car as a graduation present and offering to pay for law school if there wasn't enough money left in his college fund to cover it. (source)
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He will be upbraided. (source)
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She telephoned Dominic Poggio almost daily, and she upbraided him that his delivery service was going to the dogs. (source)
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It is much harder to work for such a person, as just when you are curtsying and Ma'am-ing them, they turn around and upbraid you for being so stiff and formal, and want to confide in you, and expect the same in return.† (source)
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True to her promise, Melanie clung to Scarlett's skirts like a small rustling shadow and Gerald was too much of a gentleman to upbraid his daughter in front of her.† (source)
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You left me too: but I won't upbraid you!† (source)
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She was quizzed constantly, praised for her successes, and upbraided for even the smallest mistake or hesitation.† (source)
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Mistaking her, upbraiding her, owing her, now he needed to let her know he knew, and to get right with her and her kin.† (source)
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Mrs. Nightwing straightens her spine as she does when she upbraids one of us.† (source)
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Doctor Mandelet paid no attention to Madame Ratignolle's upbraidings.† (source)
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He felt himself riding over the hills in the breezy autumn days, looking after favourite plans of drainage and enclosure; then admired on sombre mornings as the best rider on the best horse in the hunt; spoken well of on market-days as a first-rate landlord; by and by making speeches at election dinners, and showing a wonderful knowledge of agriculture; the patron of new ploughs and drills, the severe upbraider of negligent landowners, and withal a jolly fellow that everybody must like—happy faces greeting him everywhere on his own estate, and the neighbouring families on the best terms with him.† (source)
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I see you can say nothing in the first place, you are faint still, and have enough to do to draw your breath; in the second place, you cannot yet accustom yourself to accuse and revile me, and besides, the flood-gates of tears are opened, and they would rush out if you spoke much; and you have no desire to expostulate, to upbraid, to make a scene: you are thinking how TO ACT — TALKING you consider is of no use.† (source)
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She upbraided herself for the sentiment, but could not overcome or lessen it.† (source)
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You will not thank me for detaining you from the bewitching converse of that young lady, whose bright eyes are also upbraiding me.† (source)
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Homer seems to address this difficulty in Book XXI (441-60) where Poseidon upbraids Apollo for having forgot Laomedon's insult, and the poet provides a basis on which we might understand their different loyalties by retelling the story differently: now Poseidon says that what Apollo actually did was tend Laomedon's herds while he built the wall.† (source)
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