Maybe the thought of what was after them had a sobering effect on her.

It is a sobering situation for those who still care, he said.

The history of research in this area has been sobering.

Work had a sobering effect and no more was said that day.

"There is something sobering about the data from these studies."

With that sobering thought, she decided to head for home.

But that, he says, is not the most sobering part of the experience.

It has to be said that the results were sobering.

Perhaps not, but there is another sobering point to consider.

The sales data from the last year, however, is more sobering.

The very mention of the 80's seems a bit sobering.

The extent of the problems was a sobering experience for the company.

"I think that was a very sobering picture for people."

It was a sobering thought that we might soon find out.

"When that became clear, it made for a far more sobering decision."

The sight of so much money going away from him was sobering.

That's not just because the century has but 117 days to go, although it's a sobering reason.

There indeed some very sobering issues for society to address.

It was a sobering thought, and no one had argued.

"On the other hand, just today I had a sobering experience in a shop."

But here's a sobering thought: those expectations were way too low in the first place.

However, the outlook beyond the next three months is a bit more sobering.

Its kind of sobering to be looked at by an entire planet, he said.

The fact that she could have even formed such a thought was sobering.

"It's a sobering experience, but we are doing what should be done."

I saw him looking at my face, and his own sobered.

The thought of how close they had been to death sobered them all.

And then she sobered, thinking about what she'd done in a new light.

He was sobered suddenly by the thought of what they'd done.

However this is next day and John has now sobered up.

Eventually they sobered enough to take a look around them.

His face sobered as he asked what the trouble was.

The attack on his friend had sobered him some, but that would not last.

She had sobered up in the hour it took me to get out there.

The ride and the talk had sobered her, but only a little.

When you get sobered up, he'd said, call me back again.

Then they sobered, knowing that the difficult time was soon to come.

Apparently his coming straight to the point had sobered her.

Yeah, should have sobered up before he sent that letter.

But his heart attack last November has sobered him, friends say.

Then I sobered up, and the voice of reason kicked in.

The whole thing sobers us up a bit, but unfortunately not much.

The men in the group looked at one another, further sobered by the speaker's words.

Then the talk turned to Castro again, and both men sobered.

He sobered and started to look over his shoulder, then caught himself.

The others sobered at the thought, but then became playful again.

Sometimes he sobers up for a while, but then the bottle calls.

The recent decline, however, has sobered things up, he said.

But he sobered quickly, and looked intently into his son's eyes.

I got her sobered up a little and called you."

Try to sober down and forget your fears as there are calmer days ahead.

Then he sobered down and ran lovingly by George as they all made their way to the beach.

They sobered down then, ashamed to keep it up.

The boys thought Archie had sobered down too soon.

But he'd a sobered down in time if he'd bin spared.

When I looked up at that house I sobered down some.

The others lost their smiles and sobered down.

Rasmunsen didn't know, but supposed he was, and the man sobered down a bit.

"As a matter of fact," he continued, sobering down suddenly, "I think I've been enchanted.

Never mind dignity: let's be happy, and by and by I'll sober down."

But she'll sober down in time.'

But you're so featherbrained, Anne, I've been waiting to see if you'd sober down a little and learn to be steady before I begin.

She sobered down then.

The growth of his character from a fun loving boy to an out-of-control alcoholic to a sobered down, mature youngster was well appreciated.

"I've got to sober down.

He sobered down.

So she sobered down, and the resultant entry was a fictional masterpiece, if Tregare did say so himself!

By and by you sober down, and then you perceive that you have been drunk on the smell of somebody else's cork.

As soon as I had sobered down a little we got along very well together, and I found him a most pleasant and friendly deity.

"Well," said Anne, sobering down again with a sigh of recollection, "we have the salad anyhow and I don't think anything has happened to the beans.

Luckily we had a breathing spell in which I sobered down and took to heart the oldest lesson on patrol: You can't do the other man's job.

Soon we'll sober down--and 'keep faith'--and begin to build up our new world.

Then they all sobered down, and the busy ones went off to the various duties of the day, leaving the young invalids to repose and enjoy themselves together.

In an interview with the British youth magazine the Face , supermodel Kate Moss revealed that she hadn't walked sober down the runway for 10 years.

Apparently Mattioli now sobered down, and probably was given a separate chamber and a valet; he certainly had a valet at Pignerol later.