humbling

How To Use humbling In A Sentence

• It is always immensely humbling for we hacks to be in the presence of the Chancellor, given his facility for talking expertly about, apparently, everything under the sun.
• Yet this is not all: they are proud still, and therefore they do not seek unto God (Ps.x. 4), or, if they do cry unto him, therefore he does not give answer, for he hears only the desire of the humble (Ps.x. 17) and delivers those by his providence whom he has first by his grace prepared and made fit for deliverance, which we are not if, under humbling afflictions, our hearts remain unhumbled and our pride unmortified. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
• It was truly humbling to be in such great company and to place second after only six months in the blogging biz.
• I had a vague recollection of saying something of that sort, but to think that a patient was being helped by some throwaway remark of mine was quite humbling.
• To descend into Olduvai Gorge - back two million years in time - is humbling.
• Leading hawks within the Bush administration are gloating over their humbling of Europe and are opposed to any concessions to America's rivals.
• It's like he was slowly coming to the realization that the grand finale of the magnificent journey had come to this shockingly humbling ending.
• They kept very proudly together, though they were of different lengths: the outermost, the thumbling, was short and fat; he walked out in front of the ranks, and only had one joint in his back, and could only make a single bow; but he said that if he were hacked off a man, that man was useless for service in war. The Darning-needle
• Drunken hecklers were a different matter: the only way to handle them was to unleash a volley of abuse, humbling them with a few crushing put-downs.
• Few sights in life can compare to the humbling effect of gazing across the unknown depths and distances of the ocean. Christianity Today