chasten

With the board that tried to chasten him swapped out, Altman has a lot of leeway to make occasional principled stands while making zillions of dollars, or not.

From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2023

But his assault seemed to chasten Israel’s media and chattering classes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

Videos of those horrible patients should also chasten conservatives, because they don’t come from nowhere; they aren’t made up.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2022

People are reminded during a crisis like this that a local newspaper is a central thread that stitches neighbors together with birthday photos that make grandma happy and crime reports that chasten the scofflaw.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2020

In school Kantorek used to chasten Mittelstaedt with exactly the same expression—“Inadequate, Mittelstaedt, quite inadequate.”

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

Her humility, even in recollection, chastens him with “the true absurdity of almost all the ambitions which coursed through my younger self when I wanted to be a famous writer.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022

Eventually, however, Lear’s tragic ordeal chastens him and leads him to self-awareness and repentance.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2022

As the climate crisis chastens and public awareness grows, environmental concerns have finally made their way to the video game industry.

From The Verge ● Dec. 5, 2019

A tender 1960s portrait of the aged social activist Dorothy Day chastens and deepens the smirky irreverence of the Chicago Seven’s yippie posturing.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2012

The occasion was so happy that I remember wishing we might have something like it after our meetings 144 at home, for good-fellowship chastens the pride of winning and gives dignity to honest defeat.

From An American at Oxford by John Corbin

A nominee laser-focused on the general election might have been chastened, hastening to court the 47.6 percent of Democrats who’d backed his opponent.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

The last we last see of Hansen, muttering lines from his script as the police process the Conradt crime scene, suggests a man distubred, perhaps even chastened, by what he has witnessed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

There is also a point to prove for Rohl and his chastened squad.

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

Well, I was neither totally broke nor fully chastened and was eager to make back my losses.

From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025

“I hear that some of you decided to be prison guards instead of correction officers last night,” Sergeant Bloom chastened us.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Northampton's success came at the end of a chastening opening weekend of the top-tier tournament for Prem clubs, with Gloucester drawing against champions Bordeaux-Begles but six other sides losing.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Chelsea's chastening 8-2 Champions League defeat by Paris St-Germain last season was a turning point.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

City had suffered a chastening 3-0 defeat by champions Arsenal in the Community Shield last Sunday and were heading towards back-to-back defeats to start the season.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

It could have been even worse had the normally reliable Igor Thiago not struck the post with a penalty, but that was no consolation for Spurs or De Zerbi on what was a chastening day.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Isaac was laughing, but Patrick raised a chastening finger and said, “Augustus, please. Let’s return to you and your struggles. You said you fear oblivion?”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green