Sentence examples for chastened from inspiring English sources

This week the still chastened sport has returned to Imola.

He was "much chastened" by what he had done, and had made "genuine efforts to stop drinking and taking drugs".

The peloton, who had swallowed all but Kadri on the way up Holme Moss, were chastened by the climb and now sit a minute back.

There we spent the last night of our honeymoon, feeling chastened and anxious, before rising at dawn to catch the bus to the airport.

Hibernian were ultimately chastened by so hefty a defeat, yet joy is not entirely unconfined among the victors.

Suitably chastened, Williams posed, meekly as a cat, and Jane was very amused to hear that he did an impeccable impersonation of her once she had left.

All this points to a new, chastened, humbler post-election Fianna Fáil, almost certainly to be led (if we believe our party backroom man) by ex-foreign minister Micheál Martin after their drubbing the polls.

Grant insisted he had got his information from "a very highly placed source", but seemed suitably chastened.

He would certainly have been chastened to read the critics who pondered whether the shadow chancellor of the exchequer might lose his job.

The party went on; to stop would have caused further panic.In this section Zapatero's balancing act The land of the ban Death in Duisburg Trust, but make military plans Jubilant Kosovo, chastened Serbia A hazy shade of summer Bored by Brussels Reprints Related items Correction: DuisburgAug 5th 2010The Love Parade was part of the Ruhr's post-industrial coming-out party.

Second, Microsoft itself looks temporarily chastened, if not weak.