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Example sentences for "chide"

Lexicographically close words:
chickweed; chicle; chicory; chid; chidden; chided; chides; chiding; chidings; chief
  1. If they do, then who would chide them, who would blame them or deride them, if they turn from pies and cookies to their Ibsen books again?

  2. Now let me chide the mean affairs And mighty toil of men: How they grow gray in trifling cares, Or waste the motion of the spheres Upon delights as vain!

  3. And Paris made answer to her and said: "Chide not my soul, lady, with cruel taunts.

  4. As for Epicurus, he indeed sent certain persons into Asia to chide Timocrates, and caused him to be removed out of the king's palace, because he had offended his brother Metrodorus; and this is written in their own books.

  5. Rebecca ventured to chide him for his threats, but offered to bind up his head for him, which she did with her own kerchief.

  6. The spirit of his dead child did moreover speak to him from the land of souls, and chide him for not seeking revenge.

  7. You chide me for uttering proverbs, and you string them in couples yourself.

  8. Be true to my lord: if he flinch, chide me for it.

  9. I'll chide you softerwise than breeze o' morn, * Sweeter than spring of coolest clarity.

  10. Then who dare chide or blame me for my love * Of one that can all Beauty's boons unite?

  11. By oath I swear thee, blame and chide me not: * Be kind to mourner Love hath stricken low!

  12. Then name me not or chide for aught I did in passion-stress, * With vitals gone and frame consumed by yearning-malady!

  13. Some peril there must needs be -- without it there could be no glory; but that danger shall not be added to by any hardihood such as my royal Sire would chide in me.

  14. Yet, boy, I have not heart to chide thee; all I ask is that when thou art bent on some quest of glory or peril another time, thou wilt tell thy father first.

  15. Father, chide us not, nor call us ingrate; but it has come to this with us -- we can no longer brook this tame and idle life.

  16. And is it not altogether strange that you accustom your son to take his food in his right hand, and chide him if he offers his left, whereas you care very little about his hearing good and sound discourses?

  17. O chider, chide me not in caution, for I doubt * That plaguey Love to thee shall also deal a bout.

  18. Fairies, away:
    We shall chide downright if I longer stay.

  19. She respected, if she did not love him, and when she heard his step upon the stairs, her heart, for an instant, throbbed with dread lest he was coming to chide her as she deserved.

  20. For me, by this pale queen of night I swear, I am so far from granting thy request That I despise thee for thy wrongful suit, And by and by intend to chide myself Even for this time I spend in talking to thee.

  21. I thank you, you swing'd me for my love, which makes me the bolder to chide you for yours.

  22. But I exhort my mother, though herself Already warn'd, that meekly she submit To Jove our father, lest our father chide More roughly, and confusion mar the feast.

  23. Be patient each, nor chide me nor reproach Because I am of greener years than ye, For I am sprung from an illustrious Sire, From Tydeus, who beneath his hill of earth Lies now entomb'd at Thebes.

  24. I will no longer chide thee; But I will teach thee to keep home.

  25. Why art thou crept from home hither, to mine own doors to chide me?

  26. Drink is my life; although my wife Some time do chide and scold, Yet spare I not to ply the pot Of jolly good ale and old.

  27. Fairies away: We shall chide downe right, if I longer stay.

  28. Our sexe as well as I, may chide you for it, Though I alone doe feele the iniurie Her.

  29. I thank you, you swinged me for my love, which makes me the bolder to chide you for yours.

  30. That's a good wench, and she would not chide us for tumbling of her women in the Brakes.

  31. Brother Jacob, I pray you chide now no longer, But give me somewhat, wherewith to slake mine hunger.

  32. She useth for her bodily health and safeguard To chide daily one fit to supperward; And my master himself is worse than she, If he once thoroughly angered be.

  33. He is full both to chide or to check, And I am as willing to serve at a beck, He orders me well, and speaks me so fair, That for his sake no travail I must spare.

  34. But it is time, that I into the tent be gone, Lest she come and chide me; she will come now anon.

  35. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me?

  36. Therefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink.

  37. Although the mother did warn and chide her son, yet she did not use her authority to prevent his taking the fruit which belonged to another.

  38. Their mother did also chide them for so doing, but still the boys went on.

  39. You know when children fall down in the dirt, they do usually before they go home make their clothes as clean as they can, for fear their parents should chide them; and so I think should we.

  40. I say, it is like a man that is sent by his lord to see and pry into the labours and works of other men, taking every advantage to discover their infirmities and failings, and to chide them?

  41. If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, By unions married, do offend thine ear, They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.

  42. And chide thy beauty and thy straying youth, Who lead thee in their riot even there Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth:-- Hers by thy beauty tempting her to thee, Thine by thy beauty being false to me.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chide" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    admonish; berate; chastise; chide; correct; gall; lecture; lesson; rate; rebuke; reprehend; reprimand; reproach; reprove; scold; spank; task; tell; twit; upbraid