Sentence examples for humbled much from inspiring English sources

But the town's struggle to stay alive shows how even with the best of civic intentions, it is difficult to fight forces that have humbled much of rural America.

The Brooklyn Nets opened the impressive Barclays Center on Saturday, in the midst of a natural disaster that humbled much of the region and forced Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to postpone the New York City Marathon for the first time in the event's history.

It has not been humbled so much as humiliated, losing Game 3 by 42 points, blowing uncontested layups and failing to block out for rebounds in the final minutes of Game 4. "I don't think failure is the right word," Malone said yesterday.

I've been humbled so much by the disease that I no longer care what people think about it.

Alphonsi remains humble, much of which can be attributed to her upbringing.

Meanwhile, we will be looking out for more signs of the rehabilitaion of the humble, much-vilified Cucumis sativus.

"I felt I knew a lot about the film industry but I was humbled by how much more there was to know," she said.

Like our friend below I felt overwhelmed and humbled with so much life above me, even if it was the non-organic type.

So far from standing around "marvelling at what we have already done," (of which he had nevertheless given a fairly full account) he was "humbled by how much more we have to do… our national debt is dangerously high".

I am sure that after he got that final out, he was humbled by how much bigger his no-hitter was even than the gift he received when the gods first tapped his left arm.

"The reaction varies from person to person but I am always humbled by how much the books mean to the people I work with.