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How to use chide in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word chide? Here are some examples.

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They may chide occasionally but this is done from the perspective of the chidee rather than the chider.
Come on, we chide, they can't have all the wealth, status and talent to boot.
At the same time they chide Nokia for letting huge opportunities lie fallow.
Turning the thermostat up might have helped, and so might asking the barman not to continually chide two young boys whose unruliness was well within acceptable bounds.
The theater manager does not chide, warn or cajole us into good behavior.
His vigorously unconventional storytelling has earned him as many critics, who chide him for being overly clever and self-referential, as devotees.
They are simply not entitled to chide this Baltic country like a stupid schoolboy.
I want to gently chide my colleague in the House today for specifically referring to that as genocide.
He also shares a somewhat condescending, didactic bent, and a tendency to chide and admonish rather than charm and encourage.
Our cars will chide us if we tailgate and watch us as we drive and jolt us awake if are distracted or drifting off to sleep.
I almost went up to chide him, but who was I to do that, when I had done the same at other times?
I would gently chide the member by reminding him that for the last thirteen years, he and his government had an opportunity to address that situation.
Then she had not chidden him for the use of that familiar salutation, nor did she chide him now, though she was promised to another.
Even McBrayer sent him a letter to chide him about the resemblance.
The bipartisan panel will chide and scold the naughty bankers.
Why did he chide them for following bloggers and radio talk-show hosts?
On the streets, Shia vigilantes chide unveiled women.
I would not have the master either frown or chide with him, if the child have done his diligence, and used no truantship therein.
To rebuke the defenders for the vigor of their defense adds insult to injury, and to chide them for failing to instantly forgive their assailants is simply to encourage rampant aggression with impunity.
And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Though I was a few minutes late for dinner, Miss Herbert did not chide me for delay.
They are beaten by demons, attendants of Yama, who chide them with harsh cries.
Then at last they slowly returned, unrebuked, for no man had the heart to chide their daring.
I still continued to chide him, but, finding he did not reply, I saw he was no longer paying any attention to what I was saying.
He could scarcely chide her for borrowing, grotesque as the borrowing was.
He could not chide her for it, nor arraign her with one bitter thought.
Sometimes my mother would chide me for so doing, but I did not care, for my heart was too joyous, and my spirits too buoyant, for that.
It has never been my way to scold or chide thee, yet always hath my heart ached for each crime laid at the door of Norman of Torn.
Chide them for their frivolities and extravagances and vanities?
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