chasten

Example Sentences

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While defeat shall likely not prove fatal to their hopes of reaching the knockout stages, it was a chastening 100th European match in charge of City for Guardiola.

From Barron's

Watching the Scarlets number eight trudge off to the sin-bin seemed inevitable after the amount of penalties he conceded in a chastening afternoon.

From BBC

The Owls had lost the first leg 4-0 and been booed off the pitch by their fans after a chastening night in Cambridgeshire last Friday.

From BBC

He ended the race chastened, unable to explain how his team-mate had shown such crushing superiority.

From BBC

Instead of being chastened, Springer and his producer Richard Dominick incorporated the questionable encomium into each episode's introduction.

From Salon