CHASTEN in a Sentence
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13 example sentences for CHASTEN, such as:
1. Whom Mammy loved, she chastened.
2. He has clearly not been chastened by his thirteen days in detention.
3. I don't grieve for myself,' he says, 'God, it seems, has chastened me.
4. But we're not writing to chasten you today, we're writing to thank you.
5. His wild and enthusiastic imagination was chastened by the sensibility of his heart.
2. He has clearly not been chastened by his thirteen days in detention.
3. I don't grieve for myself,' he says, 'God, it seems, has chastened me.
4. But we're not writing to chasten you today, we're writing to thank you.
5. His wild and enthusiastic imagination was chastened by the sensibility of his heart.
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Meanings and Examples of CHASTEN
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chasten
v. rid of excess; refine or purify; correct by punishment or reproof
Classic Sentence:
1 Whom Mammy loved, she chastened.
2 Alice unconsciously dried her tears, and bent her melting eyes on the pallid features of Gamut, with an expression of chastened delight that she neither affected or wished to conceal.
3 She was more softened, more gentle; and, though equally assiduous in every duty, it was with a chastened and quiet air, as one who communed with her own heart not in vain.
4 Sacred moments, when heart talked to heart in the silence of the night, turning affliction to a blessing, which chastened grief and strengthned love.
5 That sounds ill-natured: but she was so proud it became really impossible to pity her distresses, till she should be chastened into more humility.
6 "And Koorshid pointed out one who had more than any contributed to the death of my father," said Haidee, in a tone of chastened anger.
7 His wild and enthusiastic imagination was chastened by the sensibility of his heart.
8 Even in his chastened frame of mind, the noble miser could give us no information which could help us, for he knew little of the private life of his nephew.
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Context Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
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9 I don't grieve for myself,' he says, 'God, it seems, has chastened me.
10 And therefore God almighty when he would express his gentle dealing with the Israelites, he tells them, that though he chastened them, he chastened them as a man chastens his son, Deut.
11 And, as her love for Scarlett and her pride in her were enormous, the chastening process was practically continuous.
Example Sentence:
1 But we're not writing to chasten you today, we're writing to thank you.
2 He has clearly not been chastened by his thirteen days in detention.