chide

in a sentence

Don't get ahead of yourself, she chided.  (source) Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero, 2010

...it whined softly, then flattened its ears down in anticipation of being chidden by the man.  (source) Jack London, To Build a Fire, 1908

My mother's acute senses sometimes surprise me, but now they chide me.†  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

He chided himself for running toward the unfamiliar.†  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

Sundays were usually happy, though Mom did angrily chide us during one visit because our relationship with Mamaw had grown too close.†  (source) J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016

The nurse is no longer standing at the door—she's chiding the principal for how he's handling this situation.†  (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007

"Well, that's something, but not much," his sister chides him.†  (source) Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, 2018

The rower started, withdrew his face from the inquisitor, and, as if personally chidden, dropped the oar half feathered.†  (source) Lew Wallace, Ben Hur, 1880

It would have needed a very stalwart young woman in 1828 to disregard all those snubs and chidings and promises of prizes.†  (source) Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1928

She laughed chidingly.†  (source) Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, 1984

And godlike Alexandros made answer to him again: "Hector, since in measure thou chidest me and not beyond measure—they heart is ever keen, even as an axe that pierceth a beam at the hand of a man that shapeth a ship's timber with skill, and thereby is the man's blow strengthened; even such is thy heart undaunted in thy breast.†  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.

I love no chiders, sir.†  (source) William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, 1591

Then, thrusting his arm around Stacey's shoulders, he chided, "Friends gotta trust each other, Stacey, 'cause ain't nothin' like a true friend."†  (source) Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, 1976