EXCORIATE in a Sentence

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Seeing the holes in Bill's new pants, his mother furiously began to excoriate him for ruining his good clothes.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXCORIATE
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excoriate
 v.  scold with biting harshness; strip skin off; abrade
Classic Sentence:
1  At every new attempt to look about him the same morbid sensibility to light was manifested, and excoriating tears ran down his cheeks.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
Example Sentence:
1  Seeing the holes in Bill's new pants, his mother furiously began to excoriate him for ruining his good clothes.
2  While McDonald's has been excoriated for its unhealthy offerings, Shake Shack is perhaps just as bad.
3  His palms were excoriated by the hard labor of shoveling.