How to Use berate in a Sentence
berate
verb-
The chatter that berates them spends more time with them than you.
— Ishmael Reed, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023 -
Boyd would stand in the dining room and hear her coach berate her in her mind.
— T. M. Luhrmann, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022 -
In the video, Pratt appeared to berate Ossai about the play as the two walked to the Bengals locker room.
— Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023 -
My sister-in-law then berated me about this over the phone.
— Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2019 -
The South always thinks the north is putting them down and berating and cheating them.
— Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2024 -
Dramatic footage taken from the house shows the hogtied man writhing on the floor as a woman berates him.
— Fox News, 16 Apr. 2018 -
Every break, Knight called senior Butch Carter over to the bench and berated him.
— Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023 -
The girl holds the family’s hamster in one hand and a razor blade in the other as three males berate her.
— Chris Dehghanpoor, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024 -
That is why the president berates judges who don't reinterpret the laws in such a way as to keep him and his cronies out of prison.
— Windsor Mann, TheWeek, 27 Feb. 2020 -
Other prisoners shouted and banged on the bars of their cells, and the prison warden rushed to berate them.
— Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2022 -
After the fact, when Smith starts to berate Mitchell, the Steelers safety doesn’t respond in kind.
— Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 18 Oct. 2017 -
At some moments, her voice would bounce around the stage, berating her as her body clenched in horror.
— Kally Patz, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023 -
When Trump called to berate him for conceding the ballot, McConnell, for once, stood up to him.
— David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022 -
Rupert marches onto the field to berate West Ham’s coach.
— Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 31 May 2023 -
The story is Bean came home one night in a foul humor and started berating his wife.
— John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Jan. 2018 -
One showed a woman berating the men at the station for not being brave enough to challenge the hikes.
— Menna Zaki, The Seattle Times, 12 May 2018 -
Not berating them about the past, but pushing them into the future.
— Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 July 2015 -
Those gymnasts claimed that Han hit them, pushed them, threw his cellphone and shoes at them and berated them.
— Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023 -
The boys berated her, with the one in red concluding by calling her a welfare queen.
— Zito Madu, GQ, 24 Apr. 2018 -
He was berated by the Nationals front office, but Strasburg soon went on the DL for the first time.
— Ed Rendell, Philly.com, 26 May 2017 -
Had a parent berate a first year official for a whole half.
— Mike Bass, The Enquirer, 20 Nov. 2020 -
His family bangs on the door, pleading with him to respond; his boss berates him.
— The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018 -
Yet tons of people called to berate and threaten him, to the point that police were notified.
— Michael Fitzgerald, WIRED, 8 July 2018 -
He was once stopped in a parking garage by a man who berated him and said the shooting never happened.
— CBS News, 18 June 2019 -
Those two boys told the residents that they were hit for not doing chores fast enough and were berated by staff.
— Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2024 -
For sure there are still detainees badgering and berating the guard force — Zak sees them as the 1 per centers.
— miamiherald, 16 Aug. 2012 -
When Walter Hunter came to the microphone, he was berated by jeers.
— Gerard Albert, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024 -
The scene where the two of them berate each other on the beach and break apart is a harrowing example of acting and writing at its best.
— Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2020 -
Irked if colleagues don’t have a guide and berate them accordingly.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024 -
While the women are all huddled around the computer, a man comes by the Basic Sight office asking for more time for a payment, but Lila berates him.
— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
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