How to Use upbraid in a Sentence

upbraid

verb

• And then upbraid me in the comments here for my lack of fairness and good taste.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2011
• Mom would come home and upbraid Lola for not cleaning the house well enough or for forgetting to bring in the mail.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 17 May 2017
• Tom steps in, upbraiding the older man for striking a girl.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2023
• He is upbraided for this by Athos, who places chivalry above all else.
  — Tobias Grey, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• Early in his training, he was upbraided for failing to follow the chain of command.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
• In 2017, she was upbraided for touting the clothing line sold by Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019
• Put aside that upbraiding his female critics is one habit that is very difficult for Trump to break.
  — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2017
• The Ayers — who upbraid her like stern grandparents, firm but not uncaring — have just called her out.
  — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 17 Sep. 2017
• Cover art: The senator stares straight ahead — hands on hips, the beginnings of a wry smile — as if preparing to upbraid an unruly banker.
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• The National Covid Memorial Wall, which the campaigners expect to clean away at some stage, is an attempt both to remember the dead and to upbraid the living.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2021
• Klages’s response then, Lemke recalled, was to upbraid her and warn her against spreading false information.
  — Marc Tracy, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
• Last year, she was upbraided by a top federal ethics official for touting the clothing line sold by Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump.
  — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• He was upbraided by manager Charlie Montoyo last weekend for a pair of sequences that were less than max effort, but Guerrero handled it with aplomb.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 6 June 2019
• Yet far from celebrating these attempts to do what many schools won’t, the nation’s scolds have apparently decided this a good time to upbraid and obstruct parents who dare to do more than sit and fret.
  — Matthew Rice, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• Liz recalls being upbraided on a panel by the other directors (all of them male) for using the drops instead of getting her actors to recall past feelings, Method-style.
  — David Gordon, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• But Chisholm is also upbraided by Martindale’s Abzug, who insists that the women’s movement can’t afford to alienate male allies.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2020
• Henríquez Solórzano, their leader, asked what was going on, and upbraided Mijango for not warning him beforehand.
  — Daniel Castro, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• The elder Crouch became enraged and upbraided her granddaughter, according to court papers.
  — Matt Hamilton, latimes.com, 14 June 2017
• Congressional Democrats face risk defending Omar and Tlaib and upbraiding Israel.
  — Fox News, 17 Aug. 2019
• The lyrics were forthright and relatable, analysing relationships, upbraiding male privilege and condemning the worst of rock’s chauvinist clichés.
  — M.j., The Economist, 16 Aug. 2019
• In that case, having Pence upbraid the Communist giant might give Trump cover to argue that no administration has been tougher on China -- while spinning away criticism of a disappointing deal.
  — Stephen Collinson and Caitlin Hu, CNN, 25 Oct. 2019
• Yet Comey's actions -- including publicly upbraiding the former secretary of state for her stewardship of classified information even though she was not charged -- were raucously backed by Trump on the campaign trail.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 10 May 2017
• Malaparte is particularly pained by other people’s poor taste in clothes, and even has an anecdote about being dragged before Mussolini himself and upbraided for gossiping about Il Duce’s neckties.
  — Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• Another apparent contradiction is that three sources maintained Green never met with the team outside their regular daily hitters meeting and never upbraided them.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 May 2018
• Members of Congress have upbraided the tech giant for missing key warning signs of Russian interference prior to the 2016 election, then failing to acknowledge the Kremlin's activities immediately after the fact.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Oct. 2019
• Warren and Sanders emerged largely unscathed, having vigorously defended their proposals while upbraiding their opponents for failing to embrace bold policy positions.
  — Grace Segers, Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 31 July 2019
• Yet the Trump administration has repeatedly upbraided the organization as slow and incapable of resolving problems, like China's mercantilist behavior.
  — Don Lee, latimes.com, 17 Mar. 2018

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