Sentence examples for sobering on from inspiring English sources

For one thing, it was sobering on Sunday to see that 1,225 men and women ran the course, from the Staten Island end of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to the western edge of Central Park at 67th Street, in less time than it took me in my rented car the other day during a normal late-afternoon commuting period.

And yet the material was sobering on a personal level.

While President Obama's national export challenge has garnered much support and attention, the results remain sobering on the ground.

Nothing was quite so sobering on Monday as the tortured conclusion to the Alberto Contador doping case, writes Jim Caple on ESPN.com, which finally decided the 2010 Tour de France.

And as for the effectiveness of new security measures, I was sobered on my last major trip.

But there was sobering news on Tuesday about one of Ms. Palin's other products, the reality show "Sarah Palin's Alaska".

She emerges 32 days later sober, and with a sobering take on her former life.

This week brought some sobering news on the near future of our planet and species.

(For sobering thoughts on the world's financial markets, see the columns by veteran moneymen David Roche and Marc Faber on pages 73 and 74).

Colbert's sobering take on this ambiguity?

Her boss, Lusine Nalbandyan, quoted sobering stats on the far greater cost of institutionalizing the elderly.