Example Sentences

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“Then our dreams became humbler, to liberate our own lands. Now it’s even less. We don’t want to liberate anything. We just want to stay home and not leave our homes,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Still, the rewards that come with the new travel debit cards are much humbler than those of even the least generous credit cards from the same companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

But I believe the answer to those scourges can be found not in an advocate’s crusading righteousness, but in a journalist’s humbler mission: to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2024

The settings are Florida and upstate New York, rather than, say, Bora Bora or Monaco, but the humbler settings did not make for less extravagant price points.

From Slate • Aug. 12, 2023

It might get noised about that the Pontel- liers had met with reverses, and were forced to conduct their manage on a humbler scale than heretofore.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin