How to Use berate in a Sentence

berate

verb

• 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
• He was once stopped in a parking garage by a man who berated him and said the shooting never happened.
  — CBS News, 18 June 2019
• For sure there are still detainees badgering and berating the guard force — Zak sees them as the 1 per centers.
  — miamiherald, 16 Aug. 2012
• When Walter Hunter came to the microphone, he was berated by jeers.
  — Gerard Albert, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
• The scene where the two of them berate each other on the beach and break apart is a harrowing example of acting and writing at its best.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2020
• Where Geddert would berate, beat, or starve the girls, Nassar would soothe, massage, and reward them.
  — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2021
• The dancer claims she was berated and fired after recording a meeting due to a health condition, per the suit.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2023
• After her speech, a number of them berated her, bringing her to tears.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• And men would berate her in messages and pleasure themselves while doing so.
  — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• The sobbing victim appears to berate him and wave what looks to be a wooden board at him as he's being taken away.
  — CBS News, 18 Mar. 2021
• Jeff Sessions berated him and his state as some judge on an island in the Pacific.
  — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 7 July 2017

Last Updated: 30 Apr 2024