Example Sentences

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His pouty Elvis face folded into a frown of self-castigation.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2018

Reflecting on this controversy need not lead only to self-castigation.

From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2016

For a time he would be the grim Protestant Flagellant, pursuing the idea of self-castigation.

From The Ragged Edge by MacGrath, Harold

Even in his seventh year he began to practice austerities and self-castigation, which he kept up through his life.

From The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches by Jordan, David Starr

This laudable self-castigation she persevered in for three days long, when her hunger had increased to such a pitch that she could no longer remain quiet in the castle.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various