Sample Sentences for
chide
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    Don't get ahead of yourself, she chided.  (source)
    chided = gently scolded
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    ...it whined softly, then flattened its ears down in anticipation of being chidden by the man.  (source)
    chidden = told it has done wrong
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    My mother's acute senses sometimes surprise me, but now they chide me.†  (source)
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    Calm down, he chided himself, embarrassed.†  (source)
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    I made a mental note to speak to the boy, gently chide him about his manners.†  (source)
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    "Yyouu arre sstill verry yyoungg," Mrs Which said, her voice faintly chiding.†  (source)
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    "Well, that's something, but not much," his sister chides him.†  (source)
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    Helen Burns asked some slight question about her work of Miss Smith, was chidden for the triviality of the inquiry, returned to her place, and smiled at me as she again went by.†  (source)
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    It would have needed a very stalwart young woman in 1828 to disregard all those snubs and chidings and promises of prizes.†  (source)
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    She laughed chidingly.†  (source)
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    *tricks And if I have a gossip, or a friend (Withoute guilt), thou chidest as a fiend, If that I walk or play unto his house.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou chidest" in older English, today we say "You chide."
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    I love no chiders, sir.†  (source)
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    Kevin Houston chided Adam as they faced each other alongside the plywood building.†  (source)
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