He was so good to look at that Agnes was content just to watch him, but Aunt Constance noted his abstraction and chided him upon it.
Bobby, I'm astonished at your manners," she chided him.
My daughter," chidedher father, "did thee not hear thy cousin's question?
Then she had been made much of by every one, and now---- As she reached this point in her musings she chided herself sharply.
That is the reason that I have not chided thee when I heard thee singing the ballads and songs of the world's people.
Thee is foolish, Peggy," shechided sternly, "to heed such things.
And we didn't have a chance," Margaret chided Tom.
His superiority to the others at that table was so strikingly evident that he seemed god-like to her.
Sally, overwhelmed by his gift for monologue, uttered in a teasing, bantering, intimate voice of beautiful cadences, looked desperately about her for help.
Bybee chided her, beetling his brows in a terrific frown.
Van Horne chided her, his black eyes full of mocking humor.
Reaching the outposts, he politely asked the way to the tent of the commander, when the pickets chided him, without knowing who he was, and gave him no satisfaction.
She felt responsible for the girls losing the game and even though they in no way chided her or scolded she blamed herself.
She was teased unmercifully and chided and scoffed at upon every occasion.
There was none now--only the loud voice of the thane as he chided loiterers and those who seemed to straggle.
That woman whom I had seen weeping gave a great cry and rushed at me, seizing my little comrade from my arms, for I had lifted him as I stood, and covering him with kisses, chided him and petted at the same time.
Seated upon the piazza were Madam Conway and Theo, the former of whom chided her for staying so late at the cottage, while Theo asked what queer things the old witch-woman had said to-night.
Alighting from the carriage, and setting her little feet upon the ground with a vengeance, Madam Conway first scolded Mike unmercifully for his carelessness, and next chided Maggie for manifesting no more concern.
But Goodman Rigdale chided his son sternly for such a harebrained prank, and after that made the boy stay within his sight while he was on shore.
When he filled the jug at the pail he slopped the water clumsily, so Mistress Hopkins chided him.
He personally chided Voltaire for his folly in mixing with the King's enemies.
Plutarch gives a copy of a letter sent by Alexander wherein Aristotle is chided for publishing his lecture on oratory.
When he did undertake it he frightened the poor thing almost to death, and what the outcome would have been I can only surmise, had not a humane man noticed him one day and chided him for his method, or rather lack of method.
Mrs. Wallace did not always breakfast with the family, but sometimes when she did I have heard that she noticed Tommy's pallor and worn expression, and chided him for studying so hard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chided" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
