Example sentences for: chided

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

  • (At one press conference earlier this year, he joked, "I'm happy to be black--I mean back," and chided journalists about their preference for the Old Testament.)

  • A Times editorial chided Republicans for "seeking Greenspanian ambiguity where it did not exist."

  • Netanyahu complained about being snubbed by Clinton on a prior visit to the U.S., and Clinton chided him for meeting with Jerry Falwell the other day, noting that Falwell has distributed videos suggesting that Clinton may have been complicit in a murder.

  • An old Jewish lady in Israel was chided by her children for talking to their Sabra children in Yiddish, the dialect of the ghetto, instead of in Hebrew.

  • In a number of telephone calls, all initiated by Blair and some lasting as long as 30 minutes, she urged him to "stiffen the spine" of the Americans, as she had done when she chided President Bush for going "wobbly" during the Gulf War.


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