How to Use sobering in a Sentence

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• His death is a sobering reminder of the dangers of mountaineering.
• In a sobering turn of events, Elon Musk prepares to eat his own words.
  — WSJ, 4 Oct. 2022
• This week’s Davos confab is sure to be more sobering than most.
  — Jennifer Duggan, Time, 15 Jan. 2023
• The sobering number means there’s been more mass shootings than days so far in 2023.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 19 June 2023
• In that sense, the show has a unity that is sobering and inspiring.
  — Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 20 July 2023
• That sobering remark wipes the smile off Egan’s face as quickly as the sight of Clevan put it there.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
• Consider some of the sobering facts presented in the book.
  — Madhukar Pai, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• Good job moving the patient to a possible choice to change in the sobering centers.
  — Torie Bosch, STAT, 16 Dec. 2023
• The sobering, scary news caused Kang to miss nearly three months and inspired some soul-searching.
  — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2023
• The amount of clothing that ends up in landfills is astounding — and sobering.
  — Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
• The next day came a sobering tour of Old Havana, from its colonial roots to its modern turmoil.
  — Moriah Balingit, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
• That makes for a sobering watch, but these breathtaking views help the medicine of the message go down a bit easier.
  — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2024
• DeSantis gave a sobering view of how the storm will be remembered.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
• Losing her is a sobering reminder of how precious life is.
  — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2023
• One of the more sobering scenarios from IAE is the return on capital.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Sunday’s sobering loss to the Charlotte Hornets was fresh on all minds during the session.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2023
• Yeah, 2022 was a sobering time for the streaming world and a major media companies.
  — Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• That becomes more sobering, of course, when people are forced to do so by their own failed stewardship of the planet.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 2 Feb. 2023
• The film is a sobering case study of the chilling effect that sets in when a society is governed not by the open, free exchange of ideas, but by fear.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
• The impact on Israel’s high-tech sector — the engine of the economy — is sobering.
  — Itay Stern, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
• Thinking about all the people that have now heard about movement because of the use of that song is really sobering.
  — Lily Moayeri, Spin, 8 Sep. 2023
• And even with the sobering reality of this season, the Ducks remain within two games of first place in a jumbled Pac-12.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• Read full article Healey, who took a helicopter to the region, said the aerial view of the damage was sobering.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
• Two weeks before the leaders of the world and business meet in Dubai for Cop 28, a sobering reality is settling in.
  — John Kell, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2023
• In surreal prose, Chen offers a sobering look at the pandemic two years in.
  — Nicole R. Zimmerman, Longreads, 9 Mar. 2023
• Their results, which the researchers caveat with a hefty dose of uncertainty, are sobering.
  — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
• And a sobering thought occurs: San Diego State lost — decisively — to a school regarded as the Pac-12’s eighth-best team.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• But the latest federal indictment is the most sobering of all.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• Vance, who campaigned against Tuesday's measure, gave a sobering analysis of the loss, urging constituents to look to the road ahead.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2023
• The mural depicts a home amid flames highlights the sobering statistic that Black Americans are twice as likely to die in a house fire.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 17 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024