How to Use sobering in a Sentence

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• His death is a sobering reminder of the dangers of mountaineering.
• And for a sobering dose of caution, thank the Dodgers, still hot on their spikes.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2021
• In a sobering turn of events, Elon Musk prepares to eat his own words.
  — WSJ, 4 Oct. 2022
• Yet the film is rooted in a sobering grasp of the trauma that can be the flip side of triumph.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2024
• This week’s Davos confab is sure to be more sobering than most.
  — Jennifer Duggan, Time, 15 Jan. 2023
• But that fact has never been more sobering than in his death.
  — Lucy Ford, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
• The more sobering thought for the Nuggets can be summarized in two words and a hyphen: Ant-Man.
  — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 4 May 2024
• 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
• Hilton and Doyle leaving would be a sobering moment for Colts fans.
  — Evan Sidery, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
• Good job moving the patient to a possible choice to change in the sobering centers.
  — Torie Bosch, STAT, 16 Dec. 2023
• But there’s a second, more sobering lesson: There are limits to how much the country, and the world, can adapt.
  — New York Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• The sobering, scary news caused Kang to miss nearly three months and inspired some soul-searching.
  — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2023
• Still, this handsome film serves as a sobering reminder that in any type of conflict, women tend to get the short end of the stick.
  — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
• The sobering truth is that Wiggins has much more value to the Warriors than any other team.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Oct. 2021
• The amount of clothing that ends up in landfills is astounding — and sobering.
  — Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
• But the delay such an outcome could present would be a sobering signal.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• That’s a bit of a sobering precedent for any future writers’ project.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2021
• So far results for swimmers in Paris have been sobering.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2024
• A few hours later, the milestone appears to have a more sobering effect on her.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
• 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
• The museum includes a sobering replica of the prison cell King was confined to for eight days.
  — Kayla Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2022
• But a closer look at the field brings a sobering reminder of the reason these flowers were planted.
  — Joshua Gunter, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2021
• The lagoon’s arid bottom, now made up of little more than sand and horseshoe crabs, is a sobering sight.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Comparing the last three decades of statistics about the number of acres burned yearly in wildfires is sobering.
  — Noël Fletcher, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Nov 2024