chasten in a sentence

Examples

1. If anyone thinks President Clinton's acquittal will chasten Rep . Bob Barr, they had better think again.
2. Written and performed by Universes : Gamal Abdel Chasten, Lemon, Flaco Navaja, Mildred Ruiz and Steven Sapp.
3. Like the discreet and experienced manager he was, McNabb did not chasten his men in this hour of peril.
4. Later, Benjamin Franklin quietly chastens Adams, saying it is " perfectly acceptable to insult a man in private.
5. At the time, Mandela said he hoped this rebuke might chasten Mrs . Mandela into behaving like a team player.
6. The Spartans, seeing a chance to chasten the increasingly restive Thebans, chose to launch a major campaign against Thebes.
7. She sees her family arrive and after they chasten her they enter the court to try to save Liz from prison.
8. But when the moral faculty fails to chasten the technique, her poems tend toward convoluted syntax and a perverse ingenuity of image.
9. The formulaic repetitions do little to chasten this music's flights of madness, bellicosity, libidinous yearning, sorrow and sheer comedy.
10. Western diplomats based here say the campaign is intended to chasten anyone who threatens to wrinkle the brittle political fabric of the capital this winter.