How to Use berate in a Sentence

berate

verb

• Then, seemingly out of nowhere, an employee from the production’s wardrobe department rushed over to berate him.
  — vanityfair.com, 29 Jan. 2017
• Banister didn’t berate the relievers, who didn’t need to take another beating.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram.com, 8 May 2017
• Each note hits like a hammer as Lamar boasts and berates in equal measure, playing with lyrical themes of money, sex and power that are as old as the genre itself.
  — Randall Roberts, latimes.com, 31 Mar. 2017
• He was berated by the Nationals front office, but Strasburg soon went on the DL for the first time.
  — Ed Rendell, Philly.com, 26 May 2017
• Cuomo, on the other hand, berated Conway throughout the interview.
  — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 14 May 2017
• And being asked for advice certainly doesn’t entitle anyone to insult, berate or belittle.
  — R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2024
• Fortunately, the time has come when berating chickens no longer flies scientifically.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2017
• Because Trump, who has been berating and disappointing America’s allies for many months now, did so yet again on Thursday.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 26 May 2017
• Postel responded, but only to berate McMillan for using a digital signature with his email message.
  — Cade Metz, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2012
• 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
• The South always thinks the north is putting them down and berating and cheating them.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2024
• 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
• After the fact, when Smith starts to berate Mitchell, the Steelers safety doesn’t respond in kind.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• 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

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024