haranguing

Example Sentences

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For all the justified haranguing of Pentagon weapons buying, the U.S. can still move fast when it wants to.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

We meet Leonardo as a nosebleed-suffering, dreamy-eyed Palermo teen with a haranguing mom.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2025

But Ackman “can’t believe this is happening” and is posting nonstop about his attempts to intimidate the publication by haranguing its parent company.

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2024

Schwartz, to whom she was very much married at the time, began haranguing her in front of everyone for it: "I have never been so turned off in my life," he sneered.

From Salon • May 26, 2023

On a scarlet- draped platform an orator of the Inner Party, a small lean man with disproportionately long arms and a large, bald skull over which a few lank locks straggled, was haranguing the crowd.

From "1984" by George Orwell