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Sentence count:176+10Posted:2017-02-21Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: homelymeekmodestplainsimpleunpretentiousAntonym: exaltmagnifynobleproudSimilar words: rumblestumblejumbledcrumblethumbthumbs upamblenimbleMeaning: ['hʌmbl]  v. 1. cause to be unpretentious 2. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of. adj. 1. low or inferior in station or quality 2. marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful 3. used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) 4. of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense). 
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(91) To think that a man of so many millions should visit our humble abode.
(92) Sid was always fond of reminding his audience of darts' humble origins.
(93) Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humbleRalph Waldo Emerson 
(94) Yet the school offered him nothing and lie had to humble himself to plead with me.
(95) The church of All Saints is a humble edifice with a bell turret at the west end.
(96) Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others. Gordon B. Hinckley 
(97) You may not realise, as you watch the humble caddie walk the fairways, how heavy that bag is.
(98) This humble mollusc can be unreservedly recommended as it is hardy and lives exclusively on algae.
(99) You do not become smarter by blowing your own horn. You become smarter by being humbleDr T.P.Chia 
(100) She had her doubts: Perhaps it is true that women are kept humble by the nature of their everyday activities.
(101) And making SROs profitable for private builders is a task that would humble Hercules.
(102) In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei 
(103) With my humble duty, I remain, Your Majesty's faithful and devoted servant.
(104) And for the family business with such humble beginnings the expansion is just the icing on the cake.
(105) Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. Sigmund Freud 
(106) He came down with a First and started his civil service career in the humble surroundings of the National Assistance Board.
(107) The fajita began life in South Texas as humble skirt steak, marinated and served in a tortilla.
(108) It started with Lacroix and Mizrahi glorifying the humble parka by reinterpreting the shape in deluxe brocades and satins.
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(109) Social status, so quickly achieved, made the family unwilling in later years to acknowledge their very humble origins.
(110) A contented man is never poor. A humble man is never arrogant. Dr T.P.Chia 
(111) To his humble beginnings in Up Hatherely and his school days.
(112) They have not always been as humble as Balanchine in submitting to the dictates of the score as envisaged by the composer.
(113) At a rather more humble level of philosophical sophistication, sociologists of crime and deviance have built their theories on similar suppositions.
(114) The critics of Spinning were swallowing large slices of humble pie after the reformed gelding completed a fabulous Goodwood double yesterday.
(115) Taylor's victory in the semi-final has forced many of her critics to eat humble pie.
(116) Adler gave the instrument dignity, inspiring composers such as Vaughan Williams and Joaquin Rodrigo to write for the humble mouth organ.
(117) Dentists have a humble origin, in that they are part of the history of jewellery.
(118) The Midlanders have been eating humble pie this season, though they deserve better fare.
(119) Humble houses were cobbled together from leavings stuccoed over and painted in pastel tones of pink, ochre and yellow.
(120) According to a Lever Brothers spokesman, the humble bar is not as hygienic.
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