Sentence examples for were humble from inspiring English sources

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were humble

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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.

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His beginnings were humble.

Keiko's beginnings, however, were humble.

Yet its beginnings were humble.

But his beginnings were humble.

His origins were humble for the role.

"They were humble immigrants," Mike Jr. said.

The beginnings were humble, but the result was not.

Paleontologists have found that the circumstances were humble.

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Pretty much the entire planet thought you were humble-bragging that you get "dat gash" on the regular.

As I scrolled through various statuses (most of which were humble-bragging or expressing some form of cliché political outrage), something snapped.

His roots were humble: his father was a school caretaker, his mother a housewife.

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