How To Use Tongue-lashing In A Sentence
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Nobody is beyond rebuke, particularly if they happen to have anything to do with government, and the truculent trio never worry what the fall-out might be when they decide it's time for a tongue-lashing.
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I had to bite my tongue not to give him a tongue-lashing.
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The more mature you are about taking the tongue-lashing and inevitable grounding, the more likely your folks will be to go easy on you.
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On Thursday, the coach's 10 o'clock training session was delayed by an hour as he gave his men a severe tongue-lashing about their behaviour the previous evening.
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The courts have fined them, given them a tongue-lashing in the hope that they will grow up, learn from their foolish behaviour and desist from anarchical acts.
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He gave Murphy, the chief navigator, a ferocious tongue-lashing after the ship nearly smashed into some rocks in the middle of the night, the latest in a long string of nasty confrontations.
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Gabriel also got a tongue-lashing from the judge who told him at his age he should have had the maturity to exercise self-control.
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You hear his voice, you see his face, you long for his smile of approval, you remember his tongue-lashings.
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Besides, Philip had had his share of my tongue-lashings.
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The best evidence shows he never went to trial, but was given a tongue-lashing by the Justice, then the case was dismissed because Josiah Stowell, the defendant in the case, refused to admit that Joseph Smith "juggled" him.
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Oregonians who called, but weren't from Walden's district, apparently got a bit of a tongue-lashing.
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When Kyrgyzstan's authoritarian president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, was overthrown in April, U.S. officials who rushed to Bishkek to show support for his successor received a tongue-lashing from the new Kyrgyz government, which claimed that opaque jet fuel deals had enriched the deposed regime.
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Keen as mustard, fearless as well as tactless, he did not hesitate to treat even the great man himself to a barbed tongue-lashing.
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But, knowing that I had deliberately disregarded her summonses, I took the tongue-lashing in silence, and took some con - solation in the fact that she had to crane her neck at an awkward angle to berate me.
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Indeed, she even gave him a bit of a tongue-lashing.
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At first he listened to the tongue-lashing in virtual silence.
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Referees all too often find themselves at the end of a tongue-lashing from emotional players.
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The Department of Justice on Thursday received a tongue-lashing from Parliament's watchdog public accounts committee for what it called the shocking state of the department's financial accounts.
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As if that was not enough, I have also seen young, inexperienced service staff members being subjected to loud and harsh tongue-lashing by senior citizens.
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Point 2: This story manages to use the terms "ream" in the headline and "tongue-lashing" in the lede, which is creepily Freudian.
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One case mentioned several times concerned a young secretary who had suffered a number of tongue-lashings.
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A brief angry exchange followed, with Llewelyn tongue-lashing the Welshman and Chester berating the Norman.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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I heard from colleagues about tongue-lashings they had received when she was not pleased by some decision or activity.
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A half-time tongue-lashing by the boss ensured they wouldn't be caught napping again on the restart.
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The courts have fined them, given them a tongue-lashing in the hope that they will grow up, learn from their foolish behaviour and desist from anarchical acts.
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The company, which has received a tongue-lashing from some quarters of the fashion industry, said retail conditions had been unusually poor in August.
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Although she usually keeps her most trenchant observations for the stage, several members of Hollywood royalty have received a memorable tongue-lashing.
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`Gave us a bit of tongue-lashing about the need for extra vigilance.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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If the agreement is broken, the miscreant can expect a severe tongue-lashing from the other riders.
