How to Use upbraid in a Sentence

upbraid

verb

• And then upbraid me in the comments here for my lack of fairness and good taste.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2011
• He is upbraided for this by Athos, who places chivalry above all else.
  — Tobias Grey, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• One upbraided Tufty for this comment.
  — Eric Adler june 4, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
• Mom would come home and upbraid Lola for not cleaning the house well enough or for forgetting to bring in the mail.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 17 May 2017
• There’s a moment when a former general upbraids a footman for not wearing gloves to serve food.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 22 May 2026
• Early in his training, he was upbraided for failing to follow the chain of command.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
• The Ayers — who upbraid her like stern grandparents, firm but not uncaring — have just called her out.
  — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 17 Sep. 2017
• Klages’s response then, Lemke recalled, was to upbraid her and warn her against spreading false information.
  — Marc Tracy, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
• The Galaxy keeper turned and appeared to upbraid his defenders before clapping and trying to rally his team.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
• Schumer is the latest Democrat on Capitol Hill to upbraid Kennedy in recent days over the measles outbreak.
  — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 13 July 2025
• Soon there was an altercation at the front desk, when a Haitian upbraided the American peons about not getting her free stuff fast enough.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 8 Oct. 2025
• The elder Crouch became enraged and upbraided her granddaughter, according to court papers.
  — Matt Hamilton, latimes.com, 14 June 2017
• Henríquez Solórzano, their leader, asked what was going on, and upbraided Mijango for not warning him beforehand.
  — Daniel Castro, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• During cross-examination, he was upbraided for long answers that did not immediately answer the question he had been asked.
  — Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
• Yet far from celebrating these attempts to do what many schools won’t, the nation’s scolds have apparently decided this a good time to upbraid and obstruct parents who dare to do more than sit and fret.
  — Matthew Rice, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• Liz recalls being upbraided on a panel by the other directors (all of them male) for using the drops instead of getting her actors to recall past feelings, Method-style.
  — David Gordon, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• He was upbraided by manager Charlie Montoyo last weekend for a pair of sequences that were less than max effort, but Guerrero handled it with aplomb.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 6 June 2019
• The lyrics were forthright and relatable, analysing relationships, upbraiding male privilege and condemning the worst of rock’s chauvinist clichés.
  — M.j., The Economist, 16 Aug. 2019
• But Chisholm is also upbraided by Martindale’s Abzug, who insists that the women’s movement can’t afford to alienate male allies.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2020
• Mother Mary shivers in the middle of the barn with her head slung low while Sam upbraids the pop star for leaving her behind for other, whiter designers when her career went supernova.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Apr. 2026
• Congressional Democrats face risk defending Omar and Tlaib and upbraiding Israel.
  — Fox News, 17 Aug. 2019
• The National Covid Memorial Wall, which the campaigners expect to clean away at some stage, is an attempt both to remember the dead and to upbraid the living.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2021
• At a hearing two days after the government dropped its charges against Baraka, the judge upbraided Stephen Demanovich, a federal prosecutor who had been assigned the case.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
• Another apparent contradiction is that three sources maintained Green never met with the team outside their regular daily hitters meeting and never upbraided them.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 May 2018
• Based on his 2020 short film, Meeks draws from his personal ties to Ohio to upbraid our preconceptions about the cyclical nature of addiction and recovery.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 21 Jan. 2026
• Malaparte is particularly pained by other people’s poor taste in clothes, and even has an anecdote about being dragged before Mussolini himself and upbraided for gossiping about Il Duce’s neckties.
  — Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• The sometimes tense on-air dynamic between Lemon and Collins became a topic of regular media gossip, marked by one incident in which Lemon upbraided his younger colleague off-set for attempting to speak over him on an episode.
  — Jeremy Barr, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• Warren and Sanders emerged largely unscathed, having vigorously defended their proposals while upbraiding their opponents for failing to embrace bold policy positions.
  — Grace Segers, Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 31 July 2019
• Andy Hertzfeld, a charter member of Apple’s Macintosh development team, recalled being summoned to a meeting called by Jobs to upbraid Gates over Microsoft’s plans for the Windows display.
  — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
• Members of Congress have upbraided the tech giant for missing key warning signs of Russian interference prior to the 2016 election, then failing to acknowledge the Kremlin's activities immediately after the fact.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Oct. 2019