Example sentences for: hubris

How can you use “hubris” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We risk hubris, given our lackluster national cuisine--not that I'm knocking high-fat, high-calorie, high-profit, bland stuff served up on a bun and eaten in a car--if we mock the food of another country.

  • Floyd is making me believe more strongly in a Divine Power: From the moment yesterday that I professed to you my belief that acts of God are now invariably overhyped, this one began heading directly toward metropolitan New York--toward me, I'm thinking, and my flip, callow hubris.

  • The US should snap out of its hubris over Kosovo--or the world could become very dark indeed if Russian hurt turns to mischief-making."

  • His three anxious sisters, watching from the ground below, are beginning to turn into trees--their punishment for their brother's hubris.

  • Its mission was to knock out 200 missiles carrying Russian warheads fired by accident or Chinese weapons fired by hubris.


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