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Meanings of sobering effect in English

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Usage of sobering effect in English
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Would an increase in excise duty on alcohol have a sobering effect?
The Irish Times
2
It doesn't really have the sobering effect the experts were hoping for.
News.com.au
3
The sight of the weapon had a sobering effect upon the doctor.
On the Track
4
They came fitfully under the tremendously sobering effect of what he read.
The Tyranny of Weakness
5
The shock with an unsympathetic world had a sobering effect on her.
Night and Day
6
He was fascinated and his fascination exercised a sobering effect on him.
Tales of the Jazz Age
7
Lessing tried his hand at it, with a sobering effect upon readers.
An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit
8
The splendor of the night had a sobering effect on them.
Kid Wolf of Texas / A Western Story
9
A broom-handle, end-on, in the face, had a very sobering effect.
The Road
10
He was fascinated and his fascination exercised a strangely sobering effect on him.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
11
The introduction of Louis Akers' name had a sobering effect on Anthony Cardew.
A Poor Wise Man
12
The events in the south, too, had a sobering effect.
George Washington, Volume I
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Can it be that flight has sobering effect on people?
The new yorker
14
It might have been the sobering effect of seeing Cole ambling toward them, too.
Jacinto's Remnant
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The shock seemed to have a sobering effect on me.
The Rise of David Levinsky
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This bombardment had a sobering effect upon the Mohammedan population.
With the Turks in Palestine
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