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How to use dressing-down in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word dressing-down? Here are some examples.

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Already, however, she is conspicuous enough for a good old-fashioned British dressing-down.
But it didn't matter, he was still rude, and still going to get a dressing-down.
Yesterday, I asked my man-servant to bring forth the telephone-device, so that I could give my idiot spendthrift son a stern dressing-down.
He is the minister who was subjected to a public dressing-down not long ago regarding the conduct of economic policy.
But a dressing-down from him was something that would be etched in anyone's memory, still fresh after 40 years.
I was forced to endure this schoolmaster's dressing-down despite being innocent of any of the alleged conduct.
Once they'd been on the wrong end of a dressing-down in front of the other players they didn't ever want it to happen again.
Reports suggest he has had occasion to shed the gentlemanly demeanour and give miscreants a good dressing-down.
Did I deserve this dressing-down, or is someone indulging in an egotistical rant?
It isn't long before the company's inspector soon gives him a real dressing-down.
While one player may be invigorated by a brisk dressing-down, another may be demoralised and unwilling to give his best for a boss who doesn't seem to appreciate his talents.
Young medical staff who bare their midriffs got a dressing-down yesterday.
However, Landry was laid-back about the public dressing-down.
Angela delivers a dressing-down that is fierce but remarkably subtle.
A handful of big firms that had shown sympathy for Welfare got a dressing-down.
They applauded heartily when a government minister introduced him with a lengthy dressing-down.
He got us together at the hotel and gave us a right dressing-down.
That letter led to Mr. Ding's dressing-down of the attach?1 days later.
When she told her boss that she was quitting, he gave her a dressing-down.
A dressing-down for not marching in formation?
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Examples from Classical Literature
Perhaps it was Roy's dressing-down of that youth that prompted Tom to be more decent to him than usual.
She must doff all gloves and give the little Doctor the dressing-down of his life.
And because he's given the priest a dressing-down, and broken an image worth a nickel, must he be shut up in a mad-house?
Coming out again, the grim and forbidding doctor ordered Jimmie into his car, and oh, what a dressing-down he did give him!
Furthermore, she had given Mike the Angel a dressing-down that had been quite impressive.
Perhaps you gave her such a dressing-down, Billie, that shes turned over a new leaf.
Ibbetson's wife gave him a dressing-down at tea-time for dragging Ibbetson into the row.
That fellow I gave a dressing-down about India to up at the Pratts' there.
Asda staff Chris Kinsey, Alan Rudd and Jeanette Ball in England shirts for the store's World Cup dressing-down day.
A SECOND submariner has claimed he was left in tears by a dressing-down from bullying Captain Robert Tarrant, a court martial heard yesterday.
Camp senior lambasted Derby boss Phil Brown, claimed the club were failing to coach his lad properly and gave most of the Rams' back four a dressing-down.
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