Sample Sentences for
castigate
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    "I feel as thod I sure be castigate or chastise for the wronge I've did..." (sic)  (source)
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    It left an army of thunderbolt throwers to castigate the mountains for slowing it down, but the punishment was beautiful.†  (source)
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    Then what ideas did Mencken hold that made a newspaper like the Commercial Appeal castigate him publicly?†  (source)
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    Other lucky children might merely be thrashed for their sins, but we Price girls are castigated with the Holy Bible.†  (source)
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    But his enemies and disbelievers said, this Gotama was a vain seducer, he would spent his days in luxury, scorned the offerings, was without learning, and knew neither exercises nor self-castigation.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Of course, they might have a thrashing sometimes for letting their fancy run away with them and to teach them their place, but no more; in fact, even this isn't necessary as they castigate themselves, for they are very conscientious: some perform this service for one another and others chastise themselves with their own hands....They will impose various public acts of penitence upon themselves with a beautiful and edifying effect; in fact you've nothing to be uneasy about....It's a law of nature.†  (source)
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    You've never done anything worth castigating yourself this way.†  (source)
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    Wherefore I said, "Master, who are those folk whom the black air so castigates?"†  (source)
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    The Lightwoods weren't given to corporal punishment—quite a change from being brought up by Valentine, who'd concocted all sorts of painful castigations to encourage obedience.†  (source)
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    If Gerald caught her climbing a fence instead of walking half a mile to a gate, or sitting too late on the front steps with a beau, he castigated her personally and with vehemence, but he did not mention the fact to Ellen or to Mammy.†  (source)
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    "And is that all you did about it, Foretopman?" gruffly demanded another, an irascible old fellow of brick—colored visage and hair, and who was known to his associate forecastlemen as Red Pepper; "Such sneaks I should like to marry to the gunner's daughter!" by that expression meaning that he would like to subject them to disciplinary castigation over a gun.†  (source)
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    Nobody would have conceived from his outward demeanour that there was no amatory fire or pulse of romance acting as stimulant to the bustle going on in his gaunt, great house; nothing but three large resolves—one, to make amends to his neglected Susan, another, to provide a comfortable home for Elizabeth-Jane under his paternal eye; and a third, to castigate himself with the thorns which these restitutory acts brought in their train; among them the lowering of his dignity in public opinion by marrying so comparatively humble a woman.†  (source)
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    Adams then moved to Gedney, castigating the officer for his actions in boarding and seizing the Amistad.†  (source)
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