chastened
Example Sentences
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Every time he felt he had made progress, Antonelli's apparently effortless way of extracting that little bit more from the car chastened him.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
In theory, a similar arrangement is possible with a decimated, chastened regime in Tehran.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
Marx, W. David concludes with some chastened suggestions for reconstructing a culture capable of producing “artworks that expand the possibilities of human perception.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
His players should be equally chastened after this lacklustre surrender.
From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025
Some of the teachers who had left in protest or by being required to take leave had come back, sullen or chastened; others had vanished and been replaced.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
