Examples of 'chastened' in a sentence
Meaning of "chastened"
The verb 'chasten' means to discipline, correct, or reprimand someone in order to improve their behavior or attitude. It is often used in a figurative sense to suggest a humbling or corrective experience that leads to personal growth or learning
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- Made chaste; purified; modest.
- Made moderate; restrained.
- Chastised.
- simple past tense and past participle of chasten
How to use "chastened" in a sentence
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We become chastened by public opinion or the media.
And government too has been chastened by events.
Man is chastened with pain on his bed.
Let us have compassion for the chastened.
He returns home chastened and asks forgivenness.
But the administration was not chastened.
Instead of chastened and begging for forgiveness.
And his rivals look chastened.
Most chastened of all were the bankers.
Let us see if that chastened your tongue.
Her chastened husband returns home.
Likely he will be chastened by the fact.
They both bowed their heads looking chastened.
He must be chastened for our peace.
Chastened by the commercial failure of my last two rap albums.
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One that has been chastened and purified.
A chastened grace is twice a grace.
I feel like a chastened child.
It is not wrong to grieve and feel afflicted when we are chastened.
Conservatives are chastened by their principle of imperfectability.
We have been silenced and chastened.
He returns home chastened and must ask for forgiveness.
Barbara can not be chastened.
He is soundly chastened by this unbeliever.
I will never forget my first introduction to the idea of being chastened.
Only sons are chastened in love.
Some chastened NGOs are also wary of caste versus race discourse.
He looked like a chastened child.
Chastened by our earlier.
This new orthodoxy is merely a chastened version of the old.
But a humanity chastened and relieved of its illusions and destructiveness.
I feel very chastened.
Restrained and chastened passion which we find in the great utterances.
Hardly even chastened.
God chastened them.
Iran would be chastened.
God has seldom chastened you twice in the same way.
I imagine banishing forever those sentiments of my own that she chastened and refined.
Living in chastened conditions.
And those who have admitted surprise seem more annoyed than chastened.
Jah hath chastened.
They are chastened every morning and they are plagued all the day long.
People are in a chastened mood.
He chastened them but He raised up judges for their deliverance.
They themselves are chastened by it.
A chastened Parliament confined itself to adopting sixteen amendments at second reading.
Man is chastened.
The chastened remnant will fulfill prophecy as the witnesses of Jehovah.
He was chastened.
This flexibility factors in the assessment that Washington too is in a chastened mood.
