verb
definition
(often with up) To make or become sober.
definition
(often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication.
example
It took him hours to sober up.
definition
To moderate one's feelings
Examples of sobered in a Sentence
His expression sobered and the blue eyes lost a little of their warmth.
Damian sobered, troubled by the news.
She sighed heavily and sobered.
Alex sobered and stood, brushing his clothes off.
He sobered, staring at the screen a moment before typing again.
She sobered, But I'm not much on fine dining, though.
She shrugged and sobered.
He sobered immediately and took her arm, leading her toward the door.
He nodded and then sobered.
He nodded and sobered.
It was completely repulsed, with heavy losses, and the Bulgarian command, sobered, took care not to waste its reserves in renewed assaults.
It not only sobered the humanist tendency to sacrifice truth for aesthetic effect, it called for the documents of the Church and subjected them to the most hostile criticism.
Instead of the close protection from the outer air, the respirators, and the fancy diets of our fathers, the modern poitrinaire camps out in the open air in all weathers, is fed with solid food, and in his exercise and otherwise is ruled with minute particularity according to the indications of the clinical thermometer and other symptoms. The almost reckless reliance on climate, which, at Davos for instance, marked the transition from the older to the modern methods, has of late been sobered, and supplemented by more systematic attention to all that concerns the mode of life of the invalid.
He sobered, his face coloring.
He sobered and slowly stood, gazing down at her.
Lisa sobered and nodded.
She sobered and stared down at her hands.
He sobered and watched her intently as he spoke.
He sobered and nodded.
She sobered and stared at her hands.
He sobered and shrugged.
His attention shifted back to the house and he sobered.
He sobered, pulling her toward him.
Carmen sobered and stared at him.
He sobered, his amber gaze expressing concern.
Towards the end of September he fell a victim to the plague which was ravaging the land, and his illness sobered his spirit and brought into his message a deeper note than that merely moral and common-sense one with which, as a polite humanist, he had hitherto been content.
At length the old hound burst into view with muzzle to the ground, and snapping the air as if possessed, and ran directly to the rock; but, spying the dead fox, she suddenly ceased her hounding as if struck dumb with amazement, and walked round and round him in silence; and one by one her pups arrived, and, like their mother, were sobered into silence by the mystery.