chide

How To Use chide In A Sentence

• The magic of the elves is a twilight thing, the sound of distant silver horns, a fairy gold that turns to dust by noonday, and it is meant to chide the pride of foolish mortal men. MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2)
• Bureau chief Small chided me for using the word screw on the air, which had elicited complaints from the Bible Belt. Staying Tuned
• The seven series of Monocotyledons represent a sequence beginning with the most complicated epigynous orders, such as Orchideae and Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
• “Stop being such an old ninnyhammer,” chided Aunt Agatha, giving Hilda a sharp elbow. Chasing a Rogue
• Wherefore do thou write him a letter and chide him angrily and spare him no manner of reproof, but threaten him with dreadful threats and menace him with death and say to him, ‘Whence hast thou knowledge of me, that thou durst write me, O dog of a merchant, O thou who trudgest far and wide all thy days in wilds and wolds for the sake of gaining a dirham or a dinar? The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• His left testicle was removed, by a process known as orchidectomy, because it had a tumour.
• When I refused to eat my soup, she chided me, asking if I wanted to grow up to be as small as eight-year-olds tend to be.
• He gently chided the organizers of another event, where he gave his talk in front of an empty wall.
• Anthony loved the excuse to chide, to mock, to exercise, in appearance, a little affectionate tutelage. IN LOVE AND WAR
• Come on, we chide, they can't have all the wealth, status and talent to boot.