There have apparently been three instances reported in the press of "apparently ratty women berating fellow passengers on the public transport network."

Doddering old woman, she berated herself.

Outside the door, where the orderlies sat on the ground in a row, their backs to the wall, a woman was berating the coffee orderly, Yussuf.

The woman berates her son, then turns on the television, refusing to speak to him.

One woman from Xochimilco who had waited eagerly for hours to see the Indian fighters in the flesh berated the photographers.

The next day, Mr. Boerman said, a woman in the major-league drinking faction berated everyone who hadn't paid in full.

The woman harshly berates Susanna, but Lisa intervenes with a verbal assault, horrifying the older woman.

In a recent commercial for Captain Morgan rum, a large black woman berates her man for playing dominoes and making her late.

A woman there berated someone: the new wing of their house leaked dust, she complained.

The woman then berated us in perfect French and stomped away, leaving us laughing and wondering who's really who on the streets of Manhattan.