Usage examples (14)

• : Greed might be motivation enough,: Kantor said, soberingly.
• It was an act that is soberingly reminiscent of the risks and sacrifices undertaken by attorneys in another emerging democracy today.
• The cast of characters narrows down the date, somewhat soberingly, to no earlier than October 1915, and no later than the end of the Great War.
• Perhaps it was because the Soviet collapse had been anticipated for so long, and its consequences were soberingly difficult to control or even to predict (page 17).