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Example sentences for: sobering

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

As you continue driving east, you actually travel underneath the runway, which is supported on huge pillars above you — a novel (not to mention rather sobering) sensation both for those above and below.
With the papers relentlessly rah-rahing over the latest exploits of the home team, often, amazingly, on the front page, it's sobering to take in the NYT op-ed on the rampant criminality of professional football players.
That is a sobering observation, to realize that 80 percent of those who need legal help are denied such guidance and counsel.
However, the ease with which The Bell Curve assumes this guise may be as sobering as the book itself.
Whether it is a process of being captured by the China hands at the State Department or the sobering effects of real power, no American president since Nixon has dared to lean hard on China.