chiding
Example Sentences
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The characters were pricklier and more restless than I remembered, and Alcott’s voice—good-natured but chiding, unsentimental—was a revelation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
Gigi now starts each video chiding commentators who accuse her of being AI.
From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025
Whitney in April 2024 began with Brambila chiding himself for forgetting his trekking poles in the car.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025
Earlier that month, Ely had written to Perkins again, affectionately chiding her for missing a social gathering and exclaiming, “I feel lost in the new Immigration set-up!”
From Slate • Jan. 26, 2025
He couldn’t help chiding himself1—it’d been a stupid idea.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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