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How to use humbly in a sentence

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There's a Japanese saying to the effect that if you do a favor for someone you must humbly apologize, because you have caused them to lose face.
I still have to humbly respect the effort and the passion of the audiences.
If you really want to save the planet, I might humbly suggest carpooling instead.
I humbly request your attention to this matter so that I can present you as his next of kin and beneficiary to his chattels.
If, because of the disfellowship that happens, the person finally does humbly repent, then it will be our joy to welcome that person back.
He could have admitted an error, apologised humbly and gone back with a grain of respect left.
She will humbly thank them for their concern, but she will make the decision on her own terms and in her own time.
I humbly request that you all will keep helping me as I try to make good choices.
This girl, on the other hand, is available, and, I humbly suggest, very open to chat-up lines.
Better by far to humbly defer to the family matriarch for the perfect dish.
Suitably chastened, may I humbly entreat him to, unambiguously and without obfuscation, answer a few pertinent questions?
If anyone is taking nominations for the Prince of Procrastination, I hereby humbly submit myself to the competition.
The athlete might pray humbly to perform with dignity, not to disparage or bear ill will toward opponents, and to set a positive example.
She bows down at his feet and presents herself humbly as she begs for his help.
While other novitiates were humbly perfecting the simple front kick, I would be leaping into the air and spinning like a Bruce Lee wannabe.
He is the humbly born Brooklyn boy who built Shearson Loeb Rhodes from the parts of dozens of brokerages and then sold it to American Express.
Thus, to teach Socratically the physician must teach humbly, in recognition that she may not know what suffering means for this patient.
I humbly request to be included among the latter and to be allowed to quote an example of his unstinting kindness and generosity.
His exploits included a record ascent of Hidden Peak in 1958, but he spent the rest of his life humbly downplaying the famous belay.
We walk humbly before God, not claiming divine assurances as our own prerogative.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They would render to all their dues, while they would humbly but righteously claim their own.
And after the Court had regained its composure the discomfited agent humbly proceeded to subdivide the question.
Joshua came up quite feebly, swathing his black face with his red handkerchief and bowed humbly to his former mistress.
I put an end to this my lucubration after having very humbly craved your good will and affection.
Therefore your memorialist humbly prays your Lordship's encouragement and support in the undertaking.
And I humbly thank you, madam or miss, for having got them set to the musics.
He bowed humbly and deferentially, and retired to the steps and his cigarette.
I humbly apprehend, that Mr. Solmes has the spirit of a man, and a gentleman.
And Meg, student of so many manuals, humbly and gratefully accepted the task.
He turned again to the judge with a smile that played like sheet lightning over his haggard face and inquired humbly.
But I have said too much, I humbly submit, and am ready to stand corrected.
She who had hungered so insatiably for recognition could be humbly thankful now for the two words that spoke of an inner bond.
We took all this quite humbly and asked him why he didn't see Ole himself and order him to unhand the lady.
But let us, in our turn, be permitted to ask our opponents, have they humbly and perseveringly applied for this divine strength?
Which humbly hope your lordships will please to allow your petitioner, who, etc.
He lay down humbly on the floor, head between his paws, tail dragging contritely across the rag rug.
But she leaned not imperatively, not seductively, but wistfully and humbly.
It suffers teetotal picnic-parties to encamp amid its savage hollows, and it humbly allows itself to be painted by the worst artists.
She was very earnestly and humbly entreating Miss Murdstone's pardon, which that lady granted, and a perfect reconciliation took place.
Tom humbly held the door for her, and she marched out as grim and erect as a grenadier.
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