be humbled

Example Sentences

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But the past century has shown that even the world’s largest and most modern militaries can be humbled when attacking tenacious adversaries willing to endure more pain to defend their territory despite overwhelming odds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

We must be humbled by the gift of life we live and have received and do our very best to make the future more viable and more just for our grandchildren and their children.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025

But to be humbled by our northern neighbor—a market so similar to our own and on terms so native to our core—is frankly humiliating.

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2023

Among a huge cast of characters, Minha Kim and Oscar-winner Yuh-Jung Youn stand out as the series’ heroine, Sunja, young and old — humble, but not to be humbled.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2023

Yet he looked at me from beneath his red-checkered keffiyeh with eyes burning fiercely, refusing to be humbled by his age.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda