humbled
Example Sentences
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Now when Mr. Khamenei pronounces on critical issues, VIPs he once humbled contradict him.
“There’s a virtue in getting older — you’ve been humbled so many times that you don’t mind being curious about learning new skills,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times
He did not make his Test debut until the age of 31 - just before an Australia side in transition was famously humbled 3-1 on home soil in 2010-11 by Andrew Strauss' team.
From BBC
He was humbled but didn’t miss out completely.
This anthology left me humbled — and determined to double down on my commitment as a writer, a free thinker, a humanist.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
