1 'Edward, you are naughty,' Dorothy chided.

2 The manager chided him for his delay.

3 Cross chided himself for worrying.

4 He gently chides his students every time they misspelled a word.

5 He swiftly chided himself for such thoughts.

6 She chided him for his bad manners.

7 'Isn't that a bit selfish?' he chided.

8 She chided him for his laziness.

9 He gently chided the two women.

10 The old woman is always scolding and chiding.

11 She chided him for not responding to her Christmas cards.

12 She was chiding her son for not being more dutiful to her.

13 She chided herself for being so impatient with the children.

14 Don't be ridiculous! she chided herself.

15 But she was just being over-imaginative,[] she chided herself.

16 She wasn't normally afraid of thunderstorms, she chided herself crossly, as alarm pulsed through her body.

17 He was right, in the arch sense that he meant it, as a means of chiding overanxious environmentalists.

18 She felt bitter about this, but chided herself for it.

19 It is that tender, chiding, mutual affection which makes these beautifully translated letters between them so agreeable to read.

20 I was chided for implying in last month's notes that Somerset looked rather a better bet than Gloucestershire.

21 You've chidden me before about filling my letters with money matters.