Sentence examples for the humbled from inspiring English sources
verb
To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.
- Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues have humbled to all strokes. -Shak.
"But I am a firm believer that the exalted will be humbled and the humbled will be exalted.
This may be wishful thinking by the humbled generals.
Were Parisians really closing ranks around the humbled emperor?
It looks like another fine managerial mess from the humbled grandmaster of media muddle.
According to a radio interview by the "humbled" Hunt, the award was also initiated by Reuters.
A few minutes earlier, the Virginia Tech fans had screamed "Over-rated!" at the humbled L.S.U.
After the humbled Nabucco converted to Judaism, he regained his power.
Russians are obsessed with American power; this sense of being the humbled rival shapes Putin's foreign policy almost completely.
The humbled bully pulled off his knit hat and parted his dreadlocks to show me the dents in his head.
Put him in ordinary court, let him rant his defence, and let the world see that he is no incredible supervillian, just the broken, humbled representative of a repulsive nihilism that he is.(Photo credit: AFP).
Two and a half hours!' " One lesson of TiVo's Academy Awards debacle is that the more ingenious the technology, the more humbled man will be by his inability to program it.
