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How to use chiding in a sentence

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Hadn't he come back, the sot turned from his sack, chiding them with Nehemiah, Jonah, minor prophets?
As soon as Constantine heard of their departure, he sent a chiding letter to Mahan, and bade him mend his pace.
I put emphasis on the word fun, twisting it so that it sounded chiding and sarcastic.
Through the gentle chiding of the gay stylist friend, to the downright vicious demands of Ms. Streep, to the snottish comments from the old Emily, it was cattishly pleasing.
In fact, her chiding, sermonic tone can echo Poisonwood's killjoy Baptist preacher, railing at the natives to put their shirts on.
The encounter saw the Labour leader chiding Mr Brand for his insistence in 2013 that people should not vote.
I think they all had a bellyful of the rugby public's chiding and groaning at lack of skills and below par play that took us to rock bottom at the World Cup.
But the greatest sin of all for Francis is perhaps that of careerism, chiding those who honor people rather than God.
Can he follow through, not bow to pressure and continue chiding the people into conservation and taking necessary measures as the country faces it worst water shortage ever?
But when I read it in paper, when I hear members from the Conservative Party across the way laughing and chiding me, I understand that they think this is just politics, but everyone here is a real person.
The 200 page, two year study found Canada's security sadly wanting, chiding the Liberal government for lacking a credible plan to deal with attacks.
Before climbing into her official car, a black Scottish government hybrid Lexus, she came close to chiding the jubilant crowd, drumming home a work ethic central to her success.
Then, KYAnonymous tweeted at him, chiding the boy for hiding.
The daring anthropopathic imagery by which the prophets often represent God as chiding, upbraiding, threatening.
Lesser lawyers who were vague in oral argument faced a barrage of sarcasm or, if he agreed with them, constant chiding to do better.
I believe things should be spontaneous and natural, like our team was. Nothing has to be thought out, and even my way of chiding the photographers was natural.
The next step is widening the perspective, chiding the Saudis, Egyptians, and others whose leaders are more subtle but whose institutions and elites perpetuate the problem.
Here, though, Cook was far more sprightly, cracking the odd joke, playfully chiding one reporter and generally giving the impression of a cricketer in a far more settled state.
I'm certainly comfortable initiating change, even if that means cajoling, chiding, and guilting people into it, particularly when it is for a good cause.
Little is known about the young man John hired to instruct his son, except that he treated the younger boy harshly, chiding him for being slow and wayward.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Alas for a man who, being with her, must spend his time in chiding!
You may know them by their saucy, chiding, devil-may-care hum.
Now Marguerite was chiding herself for her doubts and for her fears.
But Bill was in no mood to accept any sort of chiding on the point.
Thus they told what they had done, and received from their Queen some gentle chiding or loving word of praise.
Men will dishonour their parents as they grow quickly old, and will carp at them, chiding them with bitter words, hard-hearted they, not knowing the fear of the gods.
Natasha, flushed and eager, seeing her mother in prayer, suddenly checked her rush, half sat down, and unconsciously put out her tongue as if chiding herself.
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