Example sentences for: humility

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

  • He is to humility what Louis XIV was to gilt-edged furniture.

  • Humility, they say, includes letting your wife pay the bills if God gave her better math skills than you and letting her pursue the professional dreams God planted in her.

  • But this humility, which is undoubtedly sincere, also serves the Dalai Lama's shrewd PR campaign.

  • Subsequent inaugurals routinely contain protestations of humility, but they are perfunctory and do not sound sincere.

  • There's a kind of dignity in Lehrer's plodding reluctance to opine, in his hangdog humility, in his desire to serve as moderator rather than interrogator.


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