How to Use berate in a Sentence

berate

verb

• Workers said the owners berated them for writing too many letters and didn’t provide wages when due.
  — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2024
• Today, my sister sent me screenshots of Mom berating her again on Facebook.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
• Those who complained were berated, ostracized or ignored.
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 25 Oct. 2017
• He was berated, worn down, and pressured into a false confession after 17 hours of questioning.
  — Rachel Clarke, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
• But even after the door to the Oval Office was closed, aides could still hear the president berating his most senior advisers.
  — Author: Michael D. Shear, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2017
• Detectives believe the black man with the distinctive walk and markings on his clothes seen on surveillance video began to berate an older man doing some yard work.
  — CBS News, 31 Oct. 2017
• After that film was released, a shocking tape of Russell berating Lily Tomlin on set surfaced.
  — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2024
• According to Jones, Kelly berated her and, later, allegedly slapped and kicked her multiple times.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2017
• After her funeral, where a crowd of Nazis with swastika armbands salutes the coffin, Philip’s even-more-horrible father berates him for causing his sister’s death.
  — Anna Silman, The Cut, 20 Dec. 2017
• Yet even though Trump spent a solid chunk of the summer publicly berating him, McConnell continues to work with Trump, keeping his eye on the ball of tax cuts.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024