Example sentences for: chide

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

  • One might have been tempted to chide these respondents with the comment that "Pride goes before a fall" (Proverbs 16:19), but doubtless they would just have snapped back brazenly with "Euripides" or "Racine."

  • [Mary Imber went on to chide the Editor for a number of typographical errors-- literals in English English--(e.g., Ford Maddox Ford for ... Madox ...) for which only apologies, no excuses, are offered.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • They chide the opera for making African folk deities the major characters at the expense of explaining the slave revolt itself.


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