Example Sentences
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Gilgamesh’s lament is not the stylized keening of epic tradition—not Achilles’ highfalutin howls after Hector strikes down Patroclus—but something rawer, humbler, more recognizably human.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Finding only disappointment, she returned home humbler but no less determined.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024
The array of sanctuaries ranges from expansive necropolises bearing multitudes of soldiers from different nationalities to humbler graveyards and individual monuments.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2023
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
The birds did not understand Snowball’s long words, but they accepted his explanation, and all the humbler animals set to work to learn the new maxim by heart.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
