How to Use castigate in a Sentence

castigate

verb

• The author castigated the prime minister as an ineffective leader.
• King also used this instance to castigate the Church of English for their support for the British Empire.
  — Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Quartz Africa, 5 Mar. 2020
• To this point, Trump has found ways to renew the Iran agreement while still castigating it as a disaster.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 7 May 2018
• Lizzo castigated Davis and fired her on the spot, according to the lawsuit.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Aug. 2023
• An Irish priest who spent time in Maryland, Patrick Smyth, castigated the priests who ran the plantations for their exploitation of slaves.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023
• The characters in the movie also take time to castigate others who don't use correct language.
  — Angie Orellana Hernandez, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
• To bring up his perseverance in the face of shortcomings is not to castigate him in death but to cast light on important parts of his legacy.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 23 Feb. 2020
• More than 200 amassed in the park by 7 a.m. to castigate a planned fencing and closure of Echo Park Lake, which would lead to the removal of people who have been sleeping there in tents throughout the pandemic.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2021
• Bryant has waged an intense battle with the county, even using her social media cache to castigate the sheriff and name the deputies linked to the photo scandal.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• Fox News also added its voice to the fray — but to castigate those journalists praising YouTube for its decision.
  — Andy Meek, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
• Everybody who wanted to castigate us for depicting it hadn’t seen the episode.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
• President Trump seized on the Facebook tweet that noted more of the ad spending happened after the election, using it as a chance to castigate the media.
  — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2018
• But 35 countries sat out the vote, refusing either to castigate Russia, or to defend it.
  — Time, 15 Nov. 2022
• When Wylie's colleagues failed to produce a memo explaining their work to Neugebauer, Nix castigated them over email.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2018
• Royal experts tend to castigate Meghan and Prince Harry for not following the rules, speaking out of turn, and widening the family rift.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 5 Aug. 2022
• One man sat on the curb of the county courthouse with a sign castigating the former school police chief: Prosecute Pete Arredondo.
  — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
• Gunn became the prodigal son who never returned, and many English critics lined up to castigate him for running to seed—and to free verse—in America.
  — Matthew Bevis, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
• The Mirror‘s front page similarly led with the Sussexes, but the tabloid chose to castigate all parties for focusing on the royal soap opera amid a cost of living crisis.
  — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2022
• Vanessa Bryant has waged an intense battle with the county, even using her social media cachet to castigate the sheriff and name the deputies linked to the photo scandal.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• In his decision, the judge castigated both the governor and the Legislature for failing to act.
  — Jessica Huseman, ProPublica, 6 Apr. 2020
• But Macron has also castigated the protesters as unruly teenagers, blaming video games and asking parents to keep their teenagers at home.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• The irony, of course, is that the film makes a half-hearted attempt to castigate its protagonist for approaching Blackness in precisely this way.
  — Carvell Wallace, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2021
• Twitter users castigated President Trump after reports that part of the southern border wall was knocked over due to high winds.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 31 Jan. 2020
• Scenes of her being castigated via cassette tape, screeds that she has been ordered to respond to point by point though she is forbidden to transcribe his abuse, are wrenching.
  — Cory Oldweiler, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• Since Johnson, though, Republicans have largely been able to castigate Democrats as weak.
  — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
• Opponents say Campbell is not progressive enough and castigate her for not pledging to keep super PAC money out of the election.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2022
• Gorsuch also appeared to castigate the pork lobby’s Supreme Court challenge.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 12 May 2023
• But Hollywood has also castigated stars for speaking up about the plight of the Palestinian people.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
• Spranger, in public statements last year, castigated the news media in general for being unfair to her.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2018
• On his podcast, Cruz discussed the Rosemary Hills outbreak and castigated the school district’s actions to mitigate it.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023

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