Sentence example with the word 'chasten'

chasten

abate, blunt, constrain, de-emphasize, dull, lessen, obtund, purify, simplify, soften, tame, weaken

Definition v. censure severely

Last update: August 31, 2015


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Yet can one chasten a man who heeds Venus ' call?   [verb]

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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.   [verb]

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If Charles Stuart and his courtiers ever came back to London they would return sobered and chastened, taught wisdom by adversity.   [verb]

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The imagery of the Indian, both in his poetry and in his oratory, is oriental; chastened, and perhaps improved, by the limited range of his practical knowledge.   [verb]

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'It may please a kind father to chasten even his beloved children,' answered the Vicar.   [verb]

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I love Springhaven, Springhaven loves me, and we chasten one another.   [verb]

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He arose chastened on the morrow, and negotiations were resumed on the altered footing.   [verb]

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'I don't grieve for myself,' he says, 'God, it seems, has chastened me.'   [verb]

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I've done my best to chasten the evil in her.   [Please select]

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Her eyes betrayed that she had been crying, but in them shone a chastened exultation.   [Please select]

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"Oh, he'll come back, Susan, probably chastened in spirit by his fright."'   [Please select]

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