Example sentences for: self-effacing

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

  • Edgar Jr. is soft-spoken and self-effacing.

  • His self-effacing devotion to his art, and especially to landscape, helped to pry open the jaws of academic convention.

  • The magazine, which had been self-effacing to the point of reclusiveness, suddenly was brilliantly packaged and promoted.

  • The prevailing style of the GOP moderate is modest and self-effacing.

  • But consulting is a self-effacing business, and self-effacement is one thing that Ralph Reed has shown no aptitude for.


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