Sentence examples for humbling number from inspiring English sources

This situation was impressed upon me by the humbling number of unknowns in the no-frills " 'Younger Than Jesus' Art Directory," in which the New Museum published the work of the 540 artists considered for their first triennial — of which about 50 were selected for the actual show.

It's a 50-50 bet on most Internet gambling sites, a humbling number for a man competing in his 20th Masters — and a winner in four of them.

What a humbling experience".

There are encouraging numbers for Gateway and Compaq, humbling ones for Apple and Drkoop.com.

Although it is humbling that Buffett quickly passed my number of followers in his first hour on Twitter, he needs to engage the audience to pass my 76.6 idea starter rating.

It is incredibly humbling and fascinating and amazing to look at the number of actors I grew up admiring, loving, adoring, modeling my career after, hoping to be compared to.

We are seeing growing numbers of unaccompanied asylum seekers and it was humbling to see this boy's gratitude.

There's something humbling about lining up for a race and realising that a significant number of your fellow runners are barefooted.

That's almost the most humbling and striking thing I have found in the past few months – the number of women in the BBC who have said they are sorry I am leaving because I had been a role model.

It was Portugal's first training session after the humbling defeat against Germany and Nani showed up with a star and his squad number shaved into his hair.

"It's humbling; it really is humbling," Posey said.