tongue-lashing

Example Sentences

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This week’s tongue-lashing is the latest salvo in Wilson’s campaign to remake Lululemon’s board.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

Well, he’s apparently been chatting with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the whole matter, and he’s invited TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew—once the subject of a bipartisan tongue-lashing in Congress—to attend his Monday inauguration.

From Slate • Jan. 17, 2025

Spencer once dreamed of coaching big-time college football and his blunt, salty style could have served him well barking orders from the sideline or delivering a tongue-lashing locker-room speech.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2025

Meadows claimed he then sent an email pushing the campaign to assemble pro-Trump slates of electors largely because he feared a tongue-lashing from his boss.

From Salon • Sep. 5, 2023

And then he’d fling off his backpack, and she’d dump it onto the sidewalk, find her drawings, give Drew a good tongue-lashing, and then never speak to him again.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake