Warm words ensued, till Frontenac, grasping his cane, led the abbe to the door and dismissed him, berating him from the top of the stairs in tones so angry that the sentinel below spread the report that he had turned his visitor out of doors.
The minister, out of patience, replied by berating him without mercy.
It turned out, however, that he fancied himself mounted upon old Battle, reviewing the Barnstable Invincibles, whom he was berating right soundly for a set of stupid knaves.
It is only a freak of his; and if you would have the truth of it, I can tell you, that he is berating these vagabond priests, who give him no peace of his life.
They had demanded our fresh horses, cursed him and blustered, but could not move him and so were still berating him when Donnotaurus came out to them.
When he heard his mother spoken of harshly or when he overheard her berating his father, he was frightened and ran away to hide.
Berating myself: had her affection been other than that of a life-long friendship she would not have come an inch.
Across the way, beyond the wall, she heard Mr. Chamberlin's shrill voice berating a gardener.
But tell me, O my son, whence knowest thou that the King of Outer Hind hath written him a letter, berating him and bespeaking him with the grievous speech whereof thou tellest?
I went back to the desk I shared with ten others, bitterly regretting the things I might have bought with the money and berating myself for my rashness.
I saw him berating them and trying to shame them into joining their regiments.
Tommy boldly appeals to me to corroborate him; but before I have an opportunity to speak, he launches upon other issues, berating Spain for her atrocities in Cuba, and insisting that this free country cannot tolerate slavery at its doors.
But this offer is also vetoed, the Warden berating me for having taken advantage of my presence in the dispensary to see Russell clandestinely, and threatening to punish me with the dungeon.
Berating him roundly for hiding from her, bending over him, the pallor of his face frightened her.
Lin grabbed his clothes from the spectacled lady berating both soundly, giving them but little opportunity to explain.
I laid awake half the night morbidly berating the American father who is so afraid of his wife that he lets her bully him into sacrificing their joint flesh and blood upon the altar of social ambition.
I sat very still and repressed, trying to remember the harsh, unkind things I had said to her, and berating myself fiercely for all of them.
Ten minutes later I was sneaking up the interminable stairways in the sepulchral east wing, lighting and relighting a tallow candle with grim patience at every other landing and luridly berating the drafts that swept the passages.
Will went off to the University berating the paper-boy soundly.
I took it, and a moment later fell to berating myself for not having been bolder and played my game to a finish.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "berating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
