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Example sentences for "chasten"

Lexicographically close words:
chassis; chast; chaste; chasteau; chastely; chastened; chasteness; chasteneth; chastening; chastens
  1. Great reason she has for joy 'tis true; but there are some considerations which ought to have made her chasten that joy into a sober, and, at least seemingly, moderate satisfaction.

  2. Some considerations, she said, ought to have made her chasten her joy.

  3. To chasten this apparent chaos is a problem which man has set before him.

  4. But observation tends to chasten the emotions and to check those structural efforts of the intellect which have emotion for their base.

  5. Sidenote: He who loves beauty must chasten it.

  6. Some aspect of nature or some law of life, expressed in an attribute of deity, is what we really regard, and to regard such things, however sinister they may be, cannot but chasten and moralise us.

  7. I knew that a life of labor such as you voluntarily assumed would chasten your spirit, but I did not expect this utter revolution of your natura so soon.

  8. He knew that shadows were needed to chasten the spirits of his children, and teach them to look to him for the renewal of all blessings.

  9. There is physical hunger to goad to exertions which will satisfy its demands, and most tonics are bitter; so, bitter struggles develop and strengthen the soul, even as hard study invigorates the mind and numerous sorrows chasten the heart.

  10. Shall we, with the Psalmist, pray God to visit, and, if need be, chasten and correct what He sees wrong in us?

  11. Greater experience, and a more cultivated state of society, abate the warmth of imagination, and chasten the manner of expression.

  12. Greater experience, and more cultivated society, abate the warmth of imagination, and chasten the manner of expression.

  13. God at the last wil chasten these men with deserued punishment.

  14. God suffereth these things to chasten them.

  15. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure; for thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

  16. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

  17. Says I, 'I will repent and live and ask my old brethren to forgive me, and though they chasten me to death, yet I will die with them, for their God is my God.

  18. He does not chasten this class; in Hell they will receive their punishment, but it will be just.

  19. With some it may seem severe that God should chasten and scourge His children.

  20. Grant us in sickness such visions and such communion with Thee that disease of the body shall be transformed into a healer of the soul; and, as the crushed rose the sweeter fragrance emits, so may our sorrows chasten and refine us.

  21. Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that thou didst set thy heart to understand and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.

  22. I was aware when you left Kirtland that the Lord would chasten you, but I prayed fervently in the name of Jesus that you might live to receive your inheritance, agreeable to the commandment which was given concerning you.

  23. And I give unto him a new commission and a new commandment, in the which I, the Lord, chasten him for the murmurings of his heart; 8.

  24. Verily I say unto you, that I, the Lord, will chasten them, and will do whatsoever I list, if they do not repent and observe all things whatsoever I have said unto them.

  25. But her quick peal of laughter was checked when I sprang up to chasten her, and she fled on her pattens, but I caught her around the corner of the house under the lilacs.

  26. And you will not truss me up to chasten me when you go free?

  27. It is a complaint of iniquity and backsliding, and such as cannot be uttered, yet it is mercy to challenge them, yea, to chasten them.

  28. Again, suppose the father should scourge and chasten the son for such offence, is the relation between them therefore dissolved?

  29. O Lord,' saith he, 'rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

  30. I will therefore chasten him, and let him go loose.

  31. I will therefore chasten him and let him loose.

  32. Whatever can subdue the spirit, chasten the character, and enlarge the charity of the soul, should be encouraged as a ministry from God.

  33. His delays are all designed for good, either to chasten or to try, and thus confirm and bless His people.

  34. She needs a husband to rule and chasten her.

  35. God has put us here to punish and chasten us for Adam's sin; and 't is not for us, who sinned in him, to question His infinite wisdom.

  36. O lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

  37. O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

  38. Helaman 12:3 3 And thus we see that except the Lord doth chasten his people with many afflictions, yea, except he doth visit them with death and with terror, and with famine and with all manner of pestilence, they will not remember him.

  39. Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope, and set not thy heart on his destruction.

  40. It warns the community to reflect that their sufferings did not arise from a feeling of revenge on the part of God, but from a desire to chasten the sinners.

  41. If thou art rebellious, Masanath, I must chasten thee.

  42. We may discipline the soul and chasten the body, but how may we govern the mind and its disorderly beliefs?


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chasten" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abate; allay; alleviate; assuage; avenge; blunt; castigate; chaste; chasten; chastise; constrain; control; correct; damp; dampen; deaden; diminish; discipline; dull; extenuate; humble; lay; lessen; lighten; mitigate; moderate; modulate; mortify; palliate; penalize; pillory; punish; purify; reduce; reprove; restrain; shame; simplify; slacken; smother; soften; stifle; subdue; suppress; tame; temper; weaken