Sentence examples for has reduced him from inspiring English sources

The driver was formerly a highly educated man, he says, but war has reduced him to being a factotum.

She tells him that the defense lawyer, in an attempt to save her godson's life, has reduced him to little more than an animal in the eyes of the jury.

A three-country trip that was intended to burnish the Mittster's Presidential credentials has reduced him to a laughing stock — the butt of tabloid headline writers and late-night comics alike.

The injury has reduced him to a painful jog, he said, adding that there was a 98 or 99percentt chance he would not compete when the decathlon begins Thursday.

Nadal has reduced him to tears on at least two occasions, after ending his five-year run at Wimbledon in the 2008 final and, even more poignantly, after beating him for the fifth time in a row in the 2009 Australian Open final.

Its Dupin-like protagonist, William Legrand, "had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want".

It has come late in his career, not in the job he had most wanted, and it follows a grueling period that had reduced him to a punchline.

Yet, in New Zealand, Leigh Halfpenny said he'd never forget how, before an Under-19 game, an inspirational Warburton had reduced him to tears.

He said that being in solitary confinement for forty-one years had reduced him to a "state of being where I can barely collect my own thoughts".

Manager Terry Collins gave Jason Bay, a player whose insufficiencies at the plate have reduced him to a platoon role, a rare start against a right-handed pitcher.

Writing in The New York Times, Dwight Garner said the book had reduced him to a puddle of tears in a coffee shop.