sobering

How To Use sobering In A Sentence

• Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
• Similarly, the political realities forced upon a nation suffering the after-effects of civil war and regicide were sobering indeed.
• If the right to recall is legislated to become a law of the land, it can have a very sobering effect on our politicians; many of them take the voter for granted.
• Yet the former England manager concedes that a far more sobering scenario could have awaited his team had they not strengthened during the mid-season transfer window. Times, Sunday Times
• I laughed before sobering up quickly again and faced her with a solemn expression.
• It is sobering, in some cases, to see how much the hand of man has altered the face of nature.
• Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
• That is what you might call a sobering experience. Christianity Today
• The sobering presentation foreboded the future of Taiwan's relationship with the United States.
• Nevertheless, for gradualists, who hoped that devolution would provide a workable and stable form of home rule that could endure for years before coming under question, recent developments have been sobering.