How to Use chasten in a Sentence

chasten

verb
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  • Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.
    — The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
  • The episode chastened the APA, which established the rule in 1973.
    — Leonard L. Glass, STAT, 28 June 2018
  • The media, chastened by the birther episode, didn’t bite.
    — Joshua Green, Daily Intelligencer, 9 July 2017
  • There is no sense of chastening or remorse on the right.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Chuck Todd: What example in the life of Donald Trump has been chastened?
    — NBC News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • When the Giants reached out, Sandoval jumped at the chance to return home, a prodigal son chastened over his misdeeds.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
  • Xavier, at times, looked like a team chastened by the physicality, or at least a team unable to cope with it.
    — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • But the Victoria Woodhull who emerged like the phoenix from the ashes of her demolished life was a new and chastened person.
    — John Strausbaugh, National Review, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Despite the huge losses, Mr. Son did not appear chastened.
    — Ben Dooley, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The crew members creep out of their cabins, chastened, relieved, curious to see what the outside world looks like.
    — Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
  • Black girls called out more overall, but were also chastened at a higher rate than other kids who called out.
    — Natalie Jacewicz, The Cut, 28 June 2017
  • At the very least, these conditions should be enough to chasten the press critics who suggest that the answers are obvious.
    — Nancy Gibbs, TIME, 25 Apr. 2024
  • At the heart of the Nicomachean Ethics is a claim that remains both edifying and chastening: phronesis doesn’t come that easy.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Collin Street Bakery says it has been chastened by the experience.
    — star-telegram, 11 Mar. 2014
  • And there is little sign that Trump was chastened by this experience.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 17 May 2018
  • Something with which to chasten or reform erring members?
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Sophie Taeuber-Arp, the abstract artist who died in 1943 at the age of fifty-three, was the most exquisitely chastened of all the idealists of her generation.
    — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2019
  • The results may chasten some of the investors demanding that the car companies keep traveling down this path.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • For anyone wondering if men in music have felt chastened and reflective in the #MeToo era, there's your answer.
    — August Brown, latimes.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • One man who might be particularly chastened by this snub is Aarons, who was singing the new gaffer's praises just a month ago to the same publication.
    — SI.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • However, there have been chastening defeats to Leicester City and Manchester City in the mix.
    — SI.com, 8 Sep. 2019
  • The Commission had been chastened by an earlier controversy over a device called the Hush-A-Phone.
    — Matthew Lasar, Ars Technica, 13 Dec. 2017
  • That attack also followed an alleged chemical-weapons attack, but what was meant to chasten the Assad regime and its allies at the time did nothing of the sort.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The idea was to uphold the social order, to prevent someone from passing themselves off as a member of a different class, to keep women covered and the poor chastened.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 27 June 2019
  • And these days, a Silicon Valley chastened by years of butting heads with government might see cooperation as the smarter move.
    — Julia Greenberg, Wired News, 20 May 2015
  • There should be no question of whether Indiana needed some soul searching, after a pair of chastening defeats last week.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Feeling chastened, perhaps, Neymar trimmed his mohawk before the final group-stage game.
    — Dan Adler, Vanities, 29 June 2018
  • But the recent price bust chastened both seasoned executives and young people about to enter the industry.
    — Houston Chronicle, 13 July 2018
  • Is that at all going to chasten more Republicans other than Mitch McConnell?
    — NBC News, 19 Dec. 2021
  • No matter the scale of its most recent failure, or the number of people who, chastened, insist that the End of History is nigh, socialism always seems to return for more.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 13 Feb. 2020

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