Sentence examples for once humble from inspiring English sources

Little wonder that Restaurant magazine picked the once humble toastie as one of its main trends for 2014.

Great fighters are supposed to be at once humble athletes, who fight for sport, and fearsome warriors, who fight for cause.

Experts suggested the march of the once humble boozer was a sign that many establishments were moving beyond the era of the gastropub.

The once humble cube of frozen water is now mentioned in terms usually associated with the other "ice" (cut, clarity and size) and is made into balls, cylindrical columns and squares of all sizes, sometimes even hand-carved.

The once humble RGIII was sounding disturbingly like the legend he has yet to become, saying he had to stay in because he was "the best option for this team" and "you have to step up and be a man".

Over the last year or so, the Vietnamese banh mi sandwich has taken New York by storm, elevating the once humble pork and pickled vegetable sandwich to heights of gastronomic chic.

"I've tried hard to care about money," Chelsea Clinton once humble-bragged, "but I couldn't".

But the other day, as we were heading downtown in a cab on Park, we saw a sight near the corner of 86th St. that all at once humbled the avenue and the city: a small, solitary boy was seated at a small folding table in front of a monolithic apartment house, and on the table were a pitcher of lemonade, some cups, and a sign reading, "Cold Drinks 5 cents".

The experience was at once humbling and thrilling — humbling because it let you feel your relative place in the vast and indifferent cosmos, and thrilling because the experience was centered not on the institutional voice of the museum as authority, but on every viewer as a privileged individual.

Partly, I suppose, the price indicates that more people appreciate this once-humble wine.

Yes, like an orange Hermès box, or a once-humble box of chocolates.