Sentence examples for sobering visit from inspiring English sources

U.S. Soviet relations, by contrast, markedly improved after the sobering visit to the brink of war.

Emmys he can live without, particularly after a sobering visit to his local firehouse on Sept. 12 -- "They lost nine people" -- followed by a pilgrimage Monday to ground zero and Trinity Church.

A sobering visit to a Romanian slaughterhouse at the height of the horsemeat scandal.

Cruises call at Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, for sobering visits to the Killing Fields and Genocide Museum, as well as floating markets and pagoda visits.

Before that, there will be a trip to Ireland for the Punchestown Festival this coming week, punctuated by sobering visits to see the very badly injured jockeys Robbie and JT McNamara.

And most sobering of all was a visit to a liver ward.

As if that were not sobering enough, during his second visit, several men who Mr. Trelstad did not know were in the building suddenly ran screaming down a stairway from the roof, saying they had been radioed that another nearby tower was about to collapse.

Another skateboarding pastor came on board as well, but Haizlip had to pay a special visit — to a sobering location — to convince him.

A cable-car visit to Roosevelt Island is sobering for those briefly inclined to abandon Jacobs for Logue.

Visiting Kalaupapa is a sobering journey into one of the most fascinating and haunting times in Hawaiian history.

A visit to the Maldives is sobering because it juxtaposes extraordinary beauty and extraordinary fragility.