Sentence examples for in sobering from inspiring English sources

"We live in sobering, shocking times".

In sobering news about a former N.F.L. running back, Dave Meggett was sentenced to 30 years in jail for sexual assault and burglary.

In other places around the country that figured prominently in the 9/11 narrative, there were fewer fist bumps and woo-hoo chants than thoughtful pauses to place the development in sobering context.

In sobering news for incumbents in Congress, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll shows that a majority of voters say their own representatives do not deserve to return to office.

Clinton has talked about installing half a billion solar panels, halting oil drilling in the Arctic and, in sobering evidence of this election's debasement, proudly told the Democratic national convention: "I believe in science".

In June, during a meeting of Caribbean finance ministers in Washington, officials from the World Bank and international health organizations placed the disease and its threat in sobering context.

And I'd definitely get more mouth action there than anyone will in Sober.

Netflix called the rise of Popcorn Time in the Netherlands "sobering".

"Huh?" He was sobering in his sleep.

Five entertaining but, always in the end, sobering years.

They are symbolic, surreal and sobering in their dark comedy.