Sentence examples for as they were humbled from inspiring English sources

The Red Bulls finished their 15th season in Major League Soccer still without a championship as they were humbled, 3-1, by San Jose, ending their playoffs.

Over a year, the film-makers earned the trust of their astonishingly youthful subjects, whose responses to their life-and-death situations are as honest as they are humbling.

Historians of daily life, as different as Fernand Braudel and Richard Cobb, made it fashionable to study individuals, so long as they were humble.

One person with DS&T went so far as to tell the author that they were "humbled" by the film.

They are as mysterious as they are humble.

This has been a double edged sword as although I am humbled that these women have taken me into their hearts as a confident, it has been accompanied by an emotional burden that has weighed heavily on my heart.

He described himself as being humbled by the power of the office and awestruck by the task ahead of him.

Davis is quoted as saying she was humbled by the experience.

It is an abiding trait of Webber's that he seems untroubled even as he may be humbled, perhaps imprisoned.

In awarding the prize to Ms. Wilkerson, a former reporter for The New York Times, the judges said she "created a brilliant and innovative paradox: the intimate epic," adding, "At its smallest scale, this towering work rests on a trio of unforgettable biographies, lives as humble as they were heroic".

For the Jets, next week in Chicago, they play a Bears team that was humbled by New England nearly as badly as the Jets were.