Sentence Examples:
The judge berates the lawyer, "How dare you defend a man who has committed the worst possible crime.
Then she told me that she was your mother, and, you may believe, berated me most wonderfully.
She had been speaking in favor of woman's rights, and had berated the opposite sex for their unwillingness to grant them.
Taine chases Thackeray through sixty solid pages, berating him for what he is pleased to term "bottled hate."
As if cued by these words, the young officer that Hayes had berated on the eve of the Schiller conquest rose and came forward.
The detective berated himself soundly again for not objecting to the acceptance of bail at all, but it was too late now to remedy the matter.
Weary, not being that type of male human who can retort in kind, sat helpless and speechless the while she berated him.
From attempting to prove the righteousness of the case, he then took to berating me for interfering with his business.
She berated her own selfishness, resolving to send her petition to her guardian, the Archbishop, and abide by his decision.
Lois Ann, when it was physically possible, got to the homes of suffering and eased the women, while she berated the men for bringing poor souls to such dread passes.
Evidently the foreman's wife was a power in the land, for the men had taken her berating silently and respectfully.
When berated by people for his excessive generosity, he said: "How could I dare indulge in these lifeless books, when human lives are in danger of starvation?"
From time to time she caught herself wishing that she could devise some means of punishing him, only to berate herself afterward for the selfishness that inspired the thought.
"Don't berate me before my face dear friend about my light, especially when you are so soon to take our brightest light away from us."
I took it, and a moment later fell to berating myself for not having been bolder and played my game to a finish.
A shrill voice began to berate him as he struggled to his feet, but he paused neither to explain nor listen.
Then, before he could get the berating he surely deserved, he was off down the stairs, disturbing the silence of the house with his cheerful whistle.
She had intended to berate Jennie for devouring the leaves of Farmer Green's trees and to order her to stop such damage at once.
Passing through the hall I heard a woman's shrill voice, lifted in anger, berating some unfortunate attendant.
Joe stalked away to attend to her duties, and in a few moments the Overland girls heard her berating the bear.
Pressmen whose duty it was to berate him in the papers were generally fond of him personally.
Nor will women who get together in conventions for the purpose of berating men, ever accomplish anything.
He could not think of her now as pitying him as he had when he berated himself after first having met her.
He berated his slow mind as he hurried invisible through the vast clouds in which the world seemed lost.
And if ever a man was berated it was that big soldier who had fallen asleep at the post of duty.
I alternated between berating myself and trying to think up an adequate explanation for the possible death or injury of two men ostensibly under my control.
Murphy occasionally looked out at them; they were all near the wheel, cursing and berating those handling the spokes, and being cursed in return.
As it happened before, no sooner was the intoxication of her presence removed than he began to berate himself for his weakness.
Claude whose nature painting Ruskin berates but whose composition is strong, had two distinct arrangements, both based on the principle of Principality.
The archduke proceeded to the Town Hall, and after berating the city officials listened to the speeches of welcome.
He was sure Mildred and Nan would berate him, but he felt as though there were weights on his feet.
He was almost as uneasy as the storm itself; alternately berating himself for a "fool," and speculating upon the deacon's management of affairs at the barn.
A thousand times I berated myself for being drawn into such a trap as I might have known these pits easily could be.
He half carried her to the rear, berating himself the while for his inability to pay her closer attention.
He berates their ignorance and superstition, their faults of character, their conduct toward the Spaniards, their lack of religious devotion, etc.
It would be hard to say which of the companies was most to blame, and, as is the rule at such times, each berated the other all the more on that account.
He remembered that he had asked the girl to come back to the office, and berated himself to think that probably she had done so only to find that he was not there.
When they had finished eating and were smoking and drinking, they began, as usual, to berate the dull life they were leading.
The men outside, frightened by the result of their awful act, were shouting orders and berating each other madly.
He had been berated and ridiculed for not solving the mystery the night before, and he determined to be in at the death now.
Other voices berated them, calling them a pair of young idiots for rushing a ghost like that.
I suggested the idea to the Warden, but he berated me for my "habitual interference" in matters that do not concern me.
Jake berated the girl as stupid while his companion showered abuse upon her until she broke down and wept.
The girl lifted her hand a little higher and berated them, her clear voice reproaching them for their lack of manners.
None of them liked him, and he was always berating them, both to us, and to their very faces.
And then, without waiting for the answer, he turned to the shepherd and began to berate him.
Rand berating them for coming so early in the morning before she had time to clean up after the last tenants.
They found their troublesome ward already waiting them, with an expression of nervous defiance on her face, as if she fully expected a sound berating from each of them.
As one of the oldest survivors of the genus Illustrator in this country, I have thus assumed to offer an apology and defense for my much berated kind.
In such strain did the Judge berate himself through ten or twelve weary days, and then the obsession left him as suddenly as it had come.
It was a bold thing for her to do, anyway, after berating him as she did when he went to her to get the use of her grove for the picnic.
Soon the friends again begin their loud wailing, and since the ground is still hard and stony, the chief finally goes to the door of the hut and berates them soundly.
The poor man is badly hurt, may be dying, for aught you know, and you stand over him and berate him when he cannot even answer you!
She had expected him to berate her for taking him for a spy, and he had asked her to marry him.
The women sat about the kitchen and berated Mike, unable even to get a bit of dinner cooked.
We gave up long ago berating the Government and thinking that anything we can do would change matters.
It's as if they weren't big enough to run alone; and so they hire a big stepmother of a university "coach," who stands around in a red sweater, and yells, and berates them.
And the men drop in to talk over plans and berate the Governor because things are not in better shape.
I berated my man for accepting goods in that condition, and he stated to me how all of it was done.
They had amused themselves by plaguing the old woman till she was half beside herself, and then, while she was berating one of them, the others would steal some apples.
As the door opened, he began to berate his valet, as he supposed it was, but was considerably taken aback at beholding a stranger enter the hall.
On one occasion I removed her child from our door, where she was doing some mischief, when she began to berate me in very passionate language.
He must have believed that the nap lasted quite a while, for now he began hurriedly, after having berated us to his heart's content, to look about with a view to continuing the journey.
Hastily calling her husband, she gave him a sharp berating for not reminding her to buy the selections.
He began at once to berate Hayward, but realized before he had finished a sentence that he could not make out a case against him, and he saw disapproval in Helen's face.
The guards at the gates were stupid, bad-tempered men, and they berated the market farmers loudly.
Mary Lee felt quite virtuous in her decision not to make friends with her relatives and often berated Nan for having no backbone and for influencing Jack.
His books opened anywhere show him berating the wrong he sees, but seldom the means of removing.
He was a very Quixote in education, and was about to rear the tender youth without bench, birch, or berating, and almost without book.
The article was 'respectfully declined,' and in the manner prescribed by its author; and for this we are berated in no measured terms.
He had just discovered one of his newest uniforms to be missing, and he was berating an orderly with its loss.
In short, never was unlucky prince more soundly berated by his superiors, more thoroughly disgraced by his followers.
The doctor disappeared within, and presently they could hear his loud, cheerful voice pretending to berate the patient.
A public meeting was held in the town hall, and the curses of the village were discussed and berated.
Three days passed before they heard any news, and then the King of the Peacocks came and berated them through a hole in the wall.
She recalled the happy hours she and Allison had spent with their music and berated herself bitterly for her selfishness, but to no avail.
The Indians asked for everything that they saw and berated the traders because their requests were not complied with.
Tories and liberals alike recognize the principle of distinction; they berate each other merely as to its extent.
The mission of the Scorcher was enlarged upon, but even as he berated his crew it could be seen that the captain was not himself convinced.
Colonel Bird berates Conwell for suggesting such a thing, tells her she shall marry the man of her choice.
Roland turns angrily to Tom, still holding the receiver to his ear, and starts to berate Tom soundly, when he suddenly hears something in the telephone which stops him.
This was not the way of Emma Goldman, whose habit was to berate and lash with the language of scorn.
Meredith downstairs prematurely, where he enacted a high scene, berating the caller, and finally ordering him from the house.
Marlowe, as she sat and wept, and then for, perhaps, the first time in her life, she turned and bitterly berated her husband.
The Earth Fairy berating Flying Soot over the utter failure of Curling Smoke, was arrested by the words of the Prince.
The girl admired it, and, having a grievance of her own, took satisfaction in berating her mistress.
Deans had decided to raise poultry more extensively than ever this year, and, berate Myron as she might, she recognized fully how valuable her faithful services were.
She dragged herself wearily into the hall and heard Jewel's angry voice berating the servants down in the yard.
Phil had noticed several times that the child was eating snow, and now berated himself for not realizing that the little fellow was thirsty.
Then he got into bed and shivered so violently that the poor lady quite forgot her intention to berate him for all the worry and trouble he had caused.
Then Ben would move about in the casket and make tortured faces at her, and some horrible times he accused, even berated her.
Felicia had the door locked and was standing outside, a slim, dusty, shining-eyed figure when the woman began berating her.
The grocer may berate the boys and threaten disaster to the one who lit the barrel, but he is seldom able to find the culprit.
Indeed, but a brief time since I would have berated any friend of mine who would not take the sensible course which would make all happy.
A little distance away was a man of enormous build berating an ordinary seaman for the neglect of some order.
She felt them and finding them full of coin suspected that Ali Baba had been robbing and fell to berating and blaming him for that he should do so ill a thing.
Psyche yielded to the terms of the Goddess, rendered herself up, and was busy sorting the gifts in the temple of Beauty when Custom was sent to berate her.
He now berated his stupidity, but consoled himself with the thought that love is always a little blind.
When this happened, he would turn around abruptly and berate his inability to extract her form from the concealing air.
I feel you are berating me, girls, so far as your natures will allow; but, then, do I not speak the truth?