Example Sentences

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She said living in the bus had "humbled" her and taken her "back to basics".

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2025

By the time I crawled stiffly into my tent that night, the wilderness had humbled me.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2020

He later claimed that the ordeal had humbled him such that he handed over command of his next adventure flight to a younger colleague.

From New York Times • May 5, 2020

Instead of trying to plough on with the old ways, he took several years out to study the Japanese production lines that had humbled the British.

From Economist • Jan. 21, 2016

Mother passed this story on to me, and I was secretly amazed that Peter, who’d been so angry at Dussel, had humbled himself, despite all his assurances to the contrary.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank