Examples of scold in a Sentence
Verb
“You should never have done that,” she scolded.
he scolded the kids for not cleaning up the mess they had made in the kitchen
Noun
He can be a bit of a scold sometimes.
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Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Jamie himself then stepped in and continued to scold the concertgoers for their bad behavior.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2025
Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Don’t be a scold, don’t be a moaner, don’t be a finger-wagging elitist, don’t be an eco-bore, don’t be a mentally ill homeless guy.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022
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Verb
Trump, then in his first term as president, scolded police in a social media post for not protecting the statue.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Jamie himself then stepped in and continued to scold the concertgoers for their bad behavior.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
With trigger-warning culture on the wane and a brutish permissiveness creeping back into society, corporate scolds have lost much of their power.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Don’t be a scold, don’t be a moaner, don’t be a finger-wagging elitist, don’t be an eco-bore, don’t be a mentally ill homeless guy.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022
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“Scold.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scold. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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scold
1 of 2 noun
: a person who scolds constantly
scold
2 of 2 verb1
: to find fault noisily or angrily
2
: to criticize severely or angrily
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