Crossword-Solution: SOBERING 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Sobering p. pr. & vb. n. of Sober

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SOBERING anagram GISBORNE

We have 4 clues for the answer “SOBERING”

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Coming to one's senses. 1 answer
Eliciting thoughtfulness 1 answer
Like a serious issue 1 answer
Type of thought 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SOBERING (5)

Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer, when the light-hearted and the loose-tongued had already their foot on the threshold; they liked to sit a while in his unobtrusive company, practising for solitude, sobering their minds in the man’s rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992
For a moment her heart beat incoherently, then she felt the sobering touch of fact, and remembered that such calls were not unknown in her charitable work.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995
The long, quavering summons brought Trimmle in precipitately with a lamp, and Mary breathed again at this sobering reappearance of the usual.
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2 (of 10) Edith Wharton 1995
The latter, at first, would not draw breath to hear him; but presently, sobering, he walked apart with the Count, and the two conversed together out of earshot.
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2 (of 10) Edith Wharton 1995
Thus he felt his careless injuries already soothed; the live air of out-of-doors, the quiet of the world, as if by their silent music, sobering and dwarfing his emotions.
Prince Otto Robert Louis Stevenson 2010

Quotes with SOBERING (3)

A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, “Stop trying to make me like you,” and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement was. Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral.
John Waters
The journey to faith is the most marvelous and sobering of all journeys, for the transformation of one’s heart transforms the questions one asks, the values one holds, the world one perceives, and the life one lives.
James Castleton MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable of beginning to live a real life; because I have already begun to think that I have lost all sense of proportion, all sense of the real and the actual; because, what is more, I have cursed myself; because my nights of fantasy are followed by hideous moments of sobering! And all the time one hears the human crowd swirling and thundering around one in …
Fyodor Dostoyevsky White Nights
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 5 times in crossword archives (1963–2019).