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.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHASTEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
chasten
 v.  rid of excess; refine or purify; correct by punishment or reproof
Classic Sentence:
1  Whom Mammy loved, she chastened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
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.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
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.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
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.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 77. Haidee.
7  His wild and enthusiastic imagination was chastened by the sensibility of his heart.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
9  I don't grieve for myself,' he says, 'God, it seems, has chastened me.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XIII
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.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  And, as her love for Scarlett and her pride in her were enormous, the chastening process was practically continuous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
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.