Often the faculties for transacting business and the talents for directing and reprimanding are considered by fond admirers to be the gift of nature, when, in reality, they are the outcome of self-control and education.
If a grave offense has been committed, reprimanding should be done with great coolness and reserve, if you would look to future events and their probable consequences.
She was reprimanding the servant who had answered the bell.
Even the moments occupied in reprimanding the servant had been moments seized on as the pretext for another delay.
They seemed between the impulse of reprimanding and embracing him.
The next minute, perhaps after another glass of champagne, he would be winning a burst of laughter by his mimicry of a gouty old colonel reprimanding him for his erring career.
This treatment was to continue during the stay of the ship; and did until the arrival of the Potomac, Commodore Downs, who instantly released them, most severely reprimanding both the Captain and Mr. Jones.
He also added, "I have been reprimanding Ouweek for his bad conduct to you; I told him I would not give him my usual backsheesh on account of his ill-treating you.
When Sterne once heard a master severely reprimanding a servant for some trifling fault, he said to the gentleman, "My dear sir, we should not expect to have every virtue under the sun for 20l.
The magistrate settled the matter by discharging the prisoner, reprimanding the accuser severely, and ordering the conjuror to be taken into custody, according to law, as a rogue and a vagabond.
Emily's patience was now exhausted, and she was reprimanding her for such idle fancies, when a servant entered the room, and informed her, that a stranger without begged leave to speak with her.
Upon beholding it, the King was struck with stupefaction, and quite lost his cue for reprimanding me, as he had promised Madame dÂ’Etampes.
I told an ostler to go and look for him, with the intention of reprimanding him sharply, even if he had gone for a necessary occasion, for we had no time to waste, not even thus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reprimanding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
