CHIDE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for CHIDE, such as:

1. The manager chided him for his delay.
2. Grandma began to chide Steven for his lying.
3. He, even as he flies, chides all his Rutulians, calling each by name, and shrieks for the sword he knew.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHIDE
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chide
 v.  scold mildly so as to correct or improve; express disapproval
Classic Sentence:
1  Telemachus answered, "Antinous, do not chide with me, but, god willing, I will be chief too if I can."
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK I
2  The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him: yet she got chided more than any of us on his account.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  This school with its false depth, all on the surface, which dissects effects without going back to first causes, chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public square.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION
4  He, even as he flies, chides all his Rutulians, calling each by name, and shrieks for the sword he knew.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
5  Then, chiding his hesitating comrades, he lifts him from the ground, dabbling the comely-ranged tresses with blood.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
Example Sentence:
1  Grandma began to chide Steven for his lying.
2  It may blunt a key line of attack from Republican Jeb Bush, who has chided her for a lack of transparency in her personal finances and government emails since releasing 33 years of his tax returns earlier this year.
3  He elicited raucous cheers, fist pumps and even a few “amens” at a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Merrimack when he chided Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. for suggesting that to defend one's house, people could fire a shotgun in the air.
4  The manager chided him for his delay.