Example sentences for: chide

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

  • Most critics take the opportunity to sum up Capote's career: They recall with regret that Capote spent more time schmoozing than writing, and deem his work less memorable than his social appearances, particularly at his fabled 1966 "Black and White Ball" and on the Tonight Show . Critics also chide Plimpton for rehashing, rather than investigating, old accusations, such as Capote's alleged lying and drinking problems.

  • A frequent ploy in reviewing scholarly books is for the reviewer to chide the writer for not having written the book he would like to have read.

  • But then you chide me that the "painfully obvious answer" to my lament is that these changes won't come "if that kind of restriction violates the First Amendment."

  • Reviews praise Johnson's range and lively prose but chide him for ignoring 30 years of scholarship and slighting America's racial and economic iniquities.

  • But Hillary has always seemed to chide us, as if we were all mossback fat cats of the '30s who were getting ready to go down to the Trans-Lux and boo Roosevelt (isn't that how that other great cartoon of the times went?)


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