15 examples of self-efface in sentences

" Throughout my stay in England I searched for, but could not find, the self-effacing spinster of former days.

"Don't you think so?" Marty was, as ever, J.W.'s ardent and self-effacing chum.

Beside him sat his wife, the quiet, self-effacing little woman who had had no thought or ambition apart from him.

Always self-effacing and silent, she was now more silent and self-effacing still.

Always self-effacing and silent, she was now more silent and self-effacing still.

The most finished of self-effacing valets, he knew just what to do and did it without being told; and when he spoke it was only because he had been spoken to or commissioned to convey a message.

The American man doesn'tthe most slaving, self-effacing, self-sacrificing?"

Strength of character, sympathy, and self-effacing devotion, combined with prudence and sincerity, made this man a tower of refuge for the unstable spirit of the poet.

Wondrous, the joy I found in playing the decorative, acquiescent, self-effacing woman to him, the pretty, pouting plaything!

Yet he was a great-hearted gentleman, unspoiled by his millions, thoughtful always for her comfort, generous, self-effacing.

Not only the Allies, but the whole world owes an incalculable debt to this soldier of justice, compact of reason and faith, imperturbable in adversity, self-effacing in the hour of victory.

Cherry-Garrard is another of the open-air, self-effacing, quiet workers; his whole heart is in the life, with profound eagerness to help everyone.

At Oxford he lived, along with Isaac Williams, in the very heart of the movement, which was the interest of his life; but he lived, self-forgetting or self-effacing, a wonderful mixture of tender and inexhaustible sympathy, and of quick and keen wit, which yet, somehow or other, in that time of exasperation and bitterness, made him few enemies.

But a self-effacing altruism doubtless also enters into their motives.

In Germany had he been seen issuing from the lecture rooms of a university, he would have been thought at home and his general status had been assumed: there being that about him which bespoke the scholar, one of those quiet self-effacing minds that have long since passed with entire humility into the service of vast themes.

15 examples of  self-efface  in sentences