chasten

How To Use chasten In A Sentence

• With the loss of so many illusions at once I cannot remember when I have felt so vulnerable or chastened, but neither can I remember when I have felt so alive.
• Her chasteness was somehow the outward proof, the external manifestation, of a potential for sexual abandon all the more alluring for being hidden, invisible.
• No doubt the school will feel suitably chastened by her absence.
• Forced to witness the collapse of everything they had once dreamed of and worked to achieve, they have emerged unchastened and unchanged in their destructive illusions.
• The Bangladeshi left-handers, who had posted their country's previous best opening stand against England in the first innings, quickly demonstrated that was merely a 'sighter' as the tourists raced to 189 for two in only 43 overs off a chastened home attack. IcCheshireOnline
• Matthew and I never talked about our desires, or even our chasteness, for that matter. Promise Me
• Although he is now housed in an open prison, and he maintains a certain hearty cheerfulness, few doubt that Archer has been chastened by his prison experience.
• Bergson is a kind of chastened and spiritualized Herbert Spencer. In the Noon of Science
• The word used for discipline in the Bible refers to the chastening, training, or instructing of our children. The Power of A Positive Mom
• Michael Stuhlbarg is a suitably chastened Xerxes, and Len Cariou is properly ghostly as Darius's minatory ghost.