How to Use self-effacing in a Sentence

self-effacing

adjective

• Yet a more self-effacing brand of charisma emerges over the course of the collection.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• Part of Benchakul’s feats have to do with his self-effacing earnestness.
  — Bill Addisonrestaurant Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• But behind the self-effacing demeanor, allies of Ms. Wiles said, is a woman who can wield a scalpel.
  — Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
• Bentley’s self-effacing jokes aside, the man knows his bluegrass.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2023
• On the witness stand, Carroll was brash, funny, self-effacing and shrewd.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
• If ballet was all self-effacing torture, there would be no need to wrestle with it.
  — Madison Mainwaring, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
• The self-effacing Tunney wasn’t incognito to a lot of his students.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
• Our friend the Corolla Cross gets 30 miles per gallon, a benchmark its self-effacing sedan forebears couldn’t meet just a decade ago.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• The self-effacing girl, all of 15, was horrified at the prospect, fainted and was gleefully slapped awake by her mother.
  — Michael Farquhar, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• See more The sisters are funny and self-effacing in their delivery.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
• These days, however, the people of Turku are proudly tooting their own horn — at least as much as the naturally self-effacing Finns are able to.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2023
• Burton’s own speech was self-effacing in her typical style.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2023
• Part self-effacing memoir, part how-to for writing screenplays, and a window into how the levers of power worked in Hollywood, this book is a stone-cold classic.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• With his self-effacing sense of humor and willingness to dive fully into any character, Paul was perfect for the part.
  — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 18 Nov. 2024
• The actor-director, in typical self-effacing fashion, doesn't claim to have solved the problem of the Holocaust film in making one himself.
  — Esther Zuckerman, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
• On the trail, this involves a delicate pairing of self-effacing anecdote and grand proclamation.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
• Here, Rowlands plays Sarah Lawson, a self-effacing love addict with no sense of self beyond her relation to others.
  — Emma Madden, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
• That memory still grounds Kimmel, who remains self-effacing even as he’s become the go-to host for Hollywood’s biggest night.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 8 Mar. 2024
• The film moves between the 1930s sequences, conventionally shot, and the scenes with Hopkins as the self-effacing older Winton recalling those years.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2023
• That humbleness and aw-shucks demeanor would always remain a part of him and anybody who ever met him would be blown away by that self-effacing aspect of his character.
  — Steve Rosen, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
• There’s a zen, self-effacing quality to the way Lyman talks about it, combined with determination.
  — Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024
• VanDerveer said in her typical self-effacing manner to start her first post-game interview Sunday.
  — Jeff Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
• The upshot is that the self-effacing champion of the vernacular owes his career to one of Mexico’s richest families.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 20 Apr. 2023
• Cher is a bracing read, peppered with caustic quips and self-effacing anecdotes, but fundamentally frank.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024
• Bearing a flawlessly polite and self-effacing demeanor, Mr. Blinken spent countless hours trying to resolve and prevent conflict.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
• Ohtani introduced himself in English, admitted his nerves, told a few self-effacing stories and awkward jokes through an interpreter and grinned for photographs.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• From the premiere stage, Hoult recalled his excitement at discovering Eastwood wanted him for the film’s central role but also the director’s self-effacing dig at his own advancing age.
  — Chris Lee, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
• Moreover, the soft-spoken, self-effacing nonagenarian is still at it, determined to capture the whimsy of nature on canvas, whatever the weather.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2023
• Strong emotions like pride and anger are generally frowned upon in favor of self-effacing, low-arousal emotions that forge connections with others and promote social harmony.
  — Iese Business School, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• The self-effacing Kress downplayed the moment.
  — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2026