How to Use chasten in a Sentence

chasten

verb

• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024