Sentence examples for humbled to learn from inspiring English sources

"I was proud and humbled to learn we have Colin Powell's support in this campaign," the president told a crowd of supporters at a later stop in Richmond, Va.

Furthermore, American investors will be humbled to learn that, notwithstanding their self-image as technologically sophisticated, the Big Board is among a cluster of stock exchanges that are most influenced by the weather.

And those snobs who proudly put La Baleine sea salt in the box on the table might be humbled to learn that since 1996 Morton's, that good old supermarket standby, has owned the French producer.

I was, in those days, still setting my own spongy curls on jumbo toilet-paper rolls in a futile effort to transform mohair into corn silk, and, reading "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," I had been humbled to learn about the more extreme mortifications practiced by black people in order "to look 'pretty,' " as Malcolm puts it, "by white standards".

While she struggled to survive, eating little but white rice, stung by countless mosquitoes and threatened by guards the age of her children, she was "humbled" to learn that the churches in her town had united for an interdenominational prayer service.

I was shocked and humbled to learn that the charity sells and charges absolutely nothing.

In Illinois, Mr. Burris, 71, said he was "truly humbled and honored to learn that later this week I will officially be sworn into the United States Senate as the Illinois junior senator".

Lin said he was "very honored an very humbled" to hear it.

I feel humbled to see white people catwalking my African print and designs.

"I am very inspired and humbled to see these initiatives in Mlango Kubwa.

Sometimes we have to be humbled and learn gratitude in order to truly receive.