Example sentences for: chastened

How can you use “chastened” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Here, then, were the two CIAs: the ineptly diabolical agency of old vs. the chastened, competent, and versatile one of today.

  • Bradley, by contrast, talks like an only slightly chastened Mondale liberal.

  • Poor FDR, properly chastened, had to flee to Hyde Park to eat the good food he loved.

  • Chastened by compliance difficulties surrounding recent IMF loans to Russia and Indonesia, says the paper, for the Korea bailout, Fund officials won concessions to many detailed provisions covering the cronyish connections among the government and the country's major industrial conglomerates.

  • Only 50 remain in the House, and most of those still there are chastened.


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