chasten

Example Sentences

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With the board that tried to chasten him swapped out, Altman has a lot of leeway to make occasional principled stands while making zillions of dollars, or not.

From Slate • Nov. 27, 2023

But his assault seemed to chasten Israel’s media and chattering classes.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2023

People are reminded during a crisis like this that a local newspaper is a central thread that stitches neighbors together with birthday photos that make grandma happy and crime reports that chasten the scofflaw.

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2020

Its subsequent burgeoning is redundant evidence that restraining a popular appetite with a statute is akin to lassoing a locomotive with a cobweb, which should chasten busybody governments.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2018

In school Kantorek used to chasten Mittelstaedt with exactly the same expression—“Inadequate, Mittelstaedt, quite inadequate.”

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque