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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    As I remembered that fact, I chided myself.†  (source)
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    At first, I think I'm imagining it and chide myself for letting Zak's talk of the fey get to me.†  (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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    The old crone tottered along the passages, and up the stairs, muttering some indistinct answers to the chidings of her companion; being at length compelled to pause for breath, she gave the light into her hand, and remained behind to follow as she might: while the more nimble superior made her way to the room where the sick woman lay.†  (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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    "If it isn't one thing, it's another," chided the minister.†  (source)
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