sobering

IPA: sˈoʊbɝɪŋ

Examples of "sobering" in Sentences

He took hold of her elbow, his expression sobering.
“I don’t know,” he said, his expression sobering at once.
“And I bring news,” Niccolo said, his expression sobering.
"There'll be casualties," Bericus murmured, his expression sobering, and he sighed.
What's really sobering is that when I first came to Stratford and saw Mr. Hutt perform, he was younger than I am now.
More sobering is the reference in the Gippsland Mercury to “the depredations of the wild blacks, with whom he had many a brush.”
More sobering is the picture Laura Bush paints of how life inside the White House was transformed with the 9/11 terror attacks on New York and Washington in 2001.