Example Sentences

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“They are humbling because of their age and size. They make humans insignificant.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2023

Once again, Wolf-Rayets are humbling astronomers who think they understand how things work.

From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2023

Modern medicine can do amazing things, but its limits are humbling.

From Salon • Jul. 2, 2022

The testimonies of these teens and early twenty-somethings are humbling and often thrilling.

From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2021

It may be asserted, as it often has been, that these doctrines are humbling to the pride of the natural heart, and this is the ground of the universal opposition to them!

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur