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Example sentences for: humbling

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

The key point is that there must be a humbling element, without complete humiliation, and that a purely financial penalty such as a fine would not be enough.
After this humbling experience I am inclined to review my earlier belief that French children must be at a disadvantage when it comes to mental arithmetic.
Beyond is the gorge’s narrowest point, the Sideróportes (Iron Gates), only 3.5 m (11 ft) wide but 300 m (1,000 feet) high, a truly humbling sight and the most memorable, for from here the gorge opens up as it approaches the sea and is much less striking.
To be able to fashion beauty from light, scent, earth, flora, and fauna, and then to give it over to the uncontrollable forces of time and decay seemed an endeavor noble and humbling.
The decision was viewed as a vindication of automakers, who warned of such injuries many years ago; the Wall Street Journal touted the "humbling retreat" of former air-bag evangelist Joan Claybrook.