Example Sentences

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In U2’s “Crumbs From Your Table,” Bono castigates the wealthy West, especially the U.S., for its miserly and neglectful treatment of African countries long harmed by colonization.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2023

White castigates an array of “delusional” American diplomats who refused to throw U.S. resources into a massive airlift of friendly Vietnamese clamoring to get out.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2023

Then "Calliope" turns into a vengeance story: Dream castigates Richard for holding Calliope captive and orders him to free her.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2022

I think about what it means to feel it, what it means to inflict it and what role it plays in a culture that alternately lauds or castigates those who deviate from the mean.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2022

In the later portion of this book Mr. Wile castigates us, not too unkindly, but, perhaps, a little too insistently, for not being ready, for not realising what war means and for being self-complacent.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir