How to Use castigate in a Sentence

castigate

verb

• The author castigated the prime minister as an ineffective leader.
• Now, is anything done to castigate this man?
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2026
• So maybe rather than castigating them, other teams would do well to emulate them.
  — Dan Freedman, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
• Everybody who wanted to castigate us for depicting it hadn’t seen the episode.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
• The characters in the movie also take time to castigate others who don't use correct language.
  — Angie Orellana Hernandez, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
• When black people color outside the lines, we are castigated, accused of rocking the boat.
  — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 29 Sep. 2017
• The owner refuses and castigates Maria’s aunt in front of a long line of customers, throwing the two of them out of the store.
  — Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 22 July 2025
• Lizzo castigated Davis and fired her on the spot, according to the lawsuit.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Aug. 2023
• And interrupted, and castigated, and told our voices are too shrill and our opinions too forceful.
  — Hillary Kelly, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2017
• To bring up his perseverance in the face of shortcomings is not to castigate him in death but to cast light on important parts of his legacy.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 23 Feb. 2020
• This wouldn’t be the first time that a high-profile true crime docudrama has been castigated for exploiting victims.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 21 Mar. 2025
• Bryant has waged an intense battle with the county, even using her social media cache to castigate the sheriff and name the deputies linked to the photo scandal.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• History will castigate their cultish devotion to Trump far worse than any of Newsom’s attempts to counter that scourge.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025
• But in a world where Chrome is castigated as the worst offending mainstream browser for privacy and tracking, this will land flat.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
• But 35 countries sat out the vote, refusing either to castigate Russia, or to defend it.
  — Time, 15 Nov. 2022
• But Macron has also castigated the protesters as unruly teenagers, blaming video games and asking parents to keep their teenagers at home.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• Trump castigated the court for not spelling out what happens to the tens of billions of dollars the government has already collected.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
• Trump’s address comes four days after Trump castigated her husband in the Oval Office.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025
• Gorsuch also appeared to castigate the pork lobby’s Supreme Court challenge.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 12 May 2023
• Scenes of her being castigated via cassette tape, screeds that she has been ordered to respond to point by point though she is forbidden to transcribe his abuse, are wrenching.
  — Cory Oldweiler, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• Fox News also added its voice to the fray — but to castigate those journalists praising YouTube for its decision.
  — Andy Meek, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
• Since Johnson, though, Republicans have largely been able to castigate Democrats as weak.
  — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
• King also used this instance to castigate the Church of English for their support for the British Empire.
  — Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Quartz Africa, 5 Mar. 2020
• When Wylie's colleagues failed to produce a memo explaining their work to Neugebauer, Nix castigated them over email.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2018
• In his decision, the judge castigated both the governor and the Legislature for failing to act.
  — Jessica Huseman, ProPublica, 6 Apr. 2020
• On the other hand, countries like Italy and especially Spain have been castigated for their reluctance to spend.
  — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
• Beatty's legal team on Friday castigated the Kennedy Center for leaving the tarp up.
  — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 20 June 2026
• But Hollywood has also castigated stars for speaking up about the plight of the Palestinian people.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
• The irony, of course, is that the film makes a half-hearted attempt to castigate its protagonist for approaching Blackness in precisely this way.
  — Carvell Wallace, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2021
• Gunn became the prodigal son who never returned, and many English critics lined up to castigate him for running to seed—and to free verse—in America.
  — Matthew Bevis, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022