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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:

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.
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.
HIV still poses a sobering list of scientific unknowns, which the optimists dismiss far too quickly.
The Designated Mourner is one of those sobering allegories set in the not-so-distant future in a country not unlike our own.
That one of those chosen to receive this honor was herself facing a new and unimaginable danger was sobering.