Object

• experience: For their young players at least this was a valuable, albeit chastening, experience.

• hand: They fully recognize that God may for our highest good lay His chastening hand upon them.

• man: Yet can one chasten a man who heeds Venus ' call?

• thought: The most chastening thought, however, is that July 7 may be repeated at any time and those well-worked emergency plans used again.

• effect: France and Germany have certainly had their moments, but reality has had a chastening effect.

• denominationalism: We've seen the end of denominationalism as we know it, although not the end of some kind of chastened denominationalism.

Subject

• experience: Chastened by the experience, I was not to be tempted by any devilish religion ever afterward.

Preposition: by

• experience: Chastened by the experience, I was not to be tempted by any devilish religion ever afterward.

Modifying Another Word

• suitably: No doubt the school will feel suitably chastened by her absence.

• somewhat: Somewhat chastened they now look on the matter in a different light.

• rather: Its owner who had laughed previous week seemed rather chastened.

• away: They would go away chastened, stirred, amused; they would not be in the riotous mood associated with the tavern.

• not: I have shown it to no one else as it is not chastened yet.

• duly: Barrie, duly chastened, took up position to defend the resultant freekick which came to naught.