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    Use "berate" in a sentence

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    berate


    berated


    berating


    1. Rooten was about to berate his friend for being even stupider than usual, when something brushed the tip of his ear, and there was no possibility that it had been Comfrey because his friend was standing on his other side


    2. “Can you not execute the simplest of my orders?” he continued to berate them, but the footwork had stopped


    3. execute the simplest of my orders?” he continued to berate them, but the footwork had


    4. She tried to berate him but matters worsened


    5. would berate her for not thinking before she acted, but loved her just as much as his biological


    6. 12 One of the apostles once asked: "Master, what should I do if a stranger forced me to carry his pack for a mile?" Jesus answered: "Do not sit down and sigh for relief while you berate the stranger under your breath


    7. they really are and continue to berate themselves to this day


    8. If his mother had been alive, he was sure she’d berate him for stretching


    9. The samurai kashira in charge of Jenny’s column was apparently no fool and understood the situation well, so he did not berate the civilians for their lukewarm welcome


    10. His two mental companions were there to berate him for his lack of social graces, but he pushed right past them

    11. looked at the broken man and thought What would it avail to berate him now?


    12. berate you, like I have for a long time


    13. Once the food was gone, the voice in her head would berate her for being so weak and undisciplined, while at the same time she would be distracted by trying to find a way to relieve her physical discomfort


    14. When you make a “mistake,” you can beat yourself up, berate yourself and call yourself all the names that are synonyms for stupid


    15. “ These shackles and chains weren’t used so much for torture, but as a means to degrade and berate


    16. (So don’t berate him)


    17. The man is probably there to berate them, hit them with a ruler, then act emotionally distant for the next few days


    18. criticize, berate, yell, but not so much with the making of the compliments


    19. One of the tourists, a woman in her late thirties smartly berate Hayden for wanton


    20. Don’t berate me for being

    21. She might berate him for his failure in chapter


    22. It seemed she was not going to berate him for inaction


    23. Had he come to make friends again – or to berate her, venting his anger with the courage of several tankards of ale?


    24. Nathan didn’t berate David with rules—Hey, don’t covet your neighbor’s wife! Hey, don’t kill! Hey, don’t commit adultery!—even though David had broken all of them


    25. I ignored the impulse to berate him, because more than anything, I wanted to hear what Caputo knew


    26. there’s no need to berate them


    27. ’ He would berate her and she would be fine with it


    1. Rayne berated herself for not bringing K’nada along


    2. berated herself for being so selfish


    3. Father berated Kestides and the other young men for their recklessness


    4. seemed a different man from the cross and haughty poet who’d berated her


    5. But as soon as he berated her for her curiosity, she became certain of one more thing


    6. He berated himself for his lustful thoughts


    7. You stupid girl, she berated herself


    8. Immediately his mind berated him for even thinking that! How could he just leave her in this state without even trying? He brushed his hand through his hair, desperation setting in


    9. I berated myself, taking a moment to drive the fear back down


    10. The XK3 verbally berated them for pushing the limits until Armion disabled the voice processor

    11. Garcia's men grew wary of carrying despatches after dark, and gave our lines a wide berth, though starving Negro pacificos hung round the camps in hundreds, and pestered the soldiers, who berated Cubans in general in consequence


    12. The more intelligent class roundly berated General Shafter, when his threat of bombardment was postponed from day to day


    13. Sending for the governor, Shafter, in the presence of a crowd, coarsely berated him as a presumptuous rascal


    14. "You still don't understand, do you?" Soffen berated him lightly


    15. "Look," Comfrey berated his friend, "it's not our fault, is it? If he'd been more careful, this wouldn't have happened to him, would it


    16. “You also said I belong to you now,” I said, even as I berated myself


    17. She berated herself for foolishly allowing wishful thinking about a life partner to cause her to see things that were never really there


    18. How many times had she berated herself for her naiveté in her dealings with the FBI?


    19. In the open foyer, a dozen High Police stood guard, looking uncomfortable as Huss berated their leader


    20. Greatchen harnessed Sunni into modelling, and finally into small bit porn, and when Marilee protested, she was invited to view the houses and shows, and was berated for being 'out of touch' and 'old fashioned'

    21. My father berated me, “Jay’s aren’t quitters, and UFLS is beneath you


    22. Making this a Catch-22 scenario, Stevenson constantly berated me for being at the copying machine in front of his secretary’s desk and visible from his glassed in office


    23. All these year-cycles, and Ralph has never berated the villagers in such a way


    24. being berated by a huge, burly officer as the two stepped through the door


    25. As Summers berated Miles, Calvin took the opportunity to check in with the lower decks


    26. She said nothing as I berated her, arms crossed and rolling her eyes in her usual


    27. Posting on Reddit is playing with fire-submit spammy or overtly sales-focused content and your business could get berated by this extremely tech-savvy community


    28. women returned to the group having been severely berated or beaten by their husbands


    29. The minute the younger man saw the wizard, he berated him, asked him a million questions, and became incensed at the answers


    30. Still, it was appealing to think of sitting at a computer in a fairly silent office, with nobody swearing at her, possibly doing boring and menial work but not being verbally abused or berated by anyone

    31. cared little for the wasted food – although that was how she berated him


    32. She was furious, and berated him and said that she felt used and betrayed and, ‘Might have known that a damn black man would have a string of women to service, just a stupid jungle boy with a hard cock,’ and much more


    33. The drive back was hellacious in every respect; eating in the car, sleeping on benches at rest stops for a few hours between being berated for… for what I was no longer sure, nor did I care


    34. Was it already too late? Had anything really changed? With Jimmy? Her father? Her mother? With herself? Had she held on to her anger too long? Why the hell hadn’t she contacted them sooner, she berated herself


    35. Be careful, she berated herself


    36. She had berated him for not crying after she had broken up with


    37. Emma berated herself silently


    38. Jasmine spoke with passion when she berated me about our plans to implement the Boblovian War Plans


    39. the Hegemony Elite, berated the Commander of the Ssscrl


    40. He berated him with all the abusive remarks he

    41. She berated herself


    42. extremely embarrassed as the second berated him


    43. He berated himself


    44. He sat there transfixed, making little mewing noises as Jeremy berated someone for cheating on their partner with his lap-dancing grandmother (or something like that; her frequent sorties into the kitchen for top-up sarnies had made it tricky to work out precisely what was going on)


    45. ‘What’s wrong with you?’ she berated the driver in annoyance


    46. Locke berated himself for being oblivious when he was in Dale City and Cornville


    47. Jason felt duly berated as he returned the limo to


    48. or berated to the point of having no self-esteem


    49. Naturally at first he berated himself for not being successful, or rather not as lucky as he had planned, but after much reflection and analysis he realised that it was the woman’s fault and not his


    50. I berated the town fathers for attempting to rob the savings of a poor youth










    1. A corporal called out time, berating those who fell out of step and complimenting those who marched straight and proud


    2. Before Orb could continue berating Danny Sarah sauntered into the room


    3. The Transport Officer continued berating me


    4. I eased my rifle from my shoulder and swapped arms this weapon was my pride and joy but now it seemed to weigh a ton and as I walked along I swore at it under my breath berating it for being so awkward and heavy


    5. While we were waiting to be served, the couple behind us started berating the waiter, who seemed to have the patience of a Sphinx


    6. I slept in fits and starts but it wasn’t just the nightmares which had returned it was berating myself and I was so mad I could have killed someone there and then


    7. " Shouting above the clamour this statement caused, Grindel continued berating the crowd, eager to build on their hysteria


    8. Two women in their late-thirties shouted at Ainura, berating the young


    9. Wasn’t she berating me earlier, about making impromptu decisions because of Kate?


    10. Sergeant Pain was berating Dick yet again, and they could talk a bit as long as they kept up the drill with their pikes

    11. of this relatively young news channel to be condescendingly berating


    12. While berating Ren for trying to trap him with a


    13. She cries out in pain, berating herself for not being quick enough


    14. I think I was at a light one day, and saw what I thought was the manager berating an employee outside a video store


    15. She wiggled her index at him, as if berating a child


    16. Ben started berating himself


    17. Not to be outdone, Macedonian television is now awash with a lengthy ad depicting the precocious leader berating his pusillanimous and craven commanders ahead of a crucial battle


    18. brushed aside by her still getting her thing on by berating the instigator of the


    19. The newcomer, Sophie, seemed frozen in her seat, eyes wide at the open berating at the dinner table


    20. After he exited the room, Alaysia heard her grandfather talking to himself as he went down the hall, grumbling about having to explain things to her mother- berating himself for sleeping away the entire weekend when he was supposed to be having fun with his grandkids

    21. Leave it to Sigyn to waste her last breaths berating him


    22. indifference, she prepared herself for a berating


    23. Skipper was in a foul mood as usual, and after boorishly and audibly berating other sailors for their lack of consideration and skill on the water, he soon became bored, hot and hungry


    24. next attack, berating himself that he had been caught


    25. The black robed figure had ceased from berating the cowed soldiers in front of him and had wheeled his stallion around to stare in my direction


    26. berating her for this, too


    27. Nothing was to be gained by berating Philemon


    28. Lady Philippa was berating him about how old-fashioned the keep is, and I said I knew the


    29. From almost the moment that Louie walked into camp, the Bird was on him, slapping him, punching him, and berating him


    30. Fred was suddenly raving, furious, hysterical, berating the waiter and shouting with such force that his face turned purple

    31. Berating ourselves over missed trades is completely unnecessary as there will always be more set-ups


    32. I'm your own self, remember? I was darkly and passionately thrilled by all this, and I felt those chills again, merely thinking of Rowan berating me with all that heat only an hour ago


    33. As Joe was berating himself for being such a stupid fool and sitting through his first day of marriage counseling, Joanne was counting her profits, totaling $45,680, and wiring a portion of them out of her account to pay for a one-week vacation to Maui


    34. Merrington dismissed the cabman, giving him such a tip and such a berating for his carelessness that the man was left pondering whether he was considered a hero or a fool


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    Synonyms for "berate"

    bawl out berate call down call on the carpet chew out chew up chide dress down have words jaw lambast lambaste lecture rag rebuke remonstrate reprimand scold take to task trounce decry castigate inculpate censure upbraid

    "berate" definitions

    censure severely or angrily