How to Use hubris in a Sentence

hubris

noun
  • His failure was brought on by his hubris.
  • This, too, was hubris — and hypocrisy.
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Will he be made to pay for his hubris?
    — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Achilles has his heel and his hubris to go along with his great strength.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Well, that’s a house built on hubris and horse feathers.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 6 May 2026
  • And yet his self-confidence was a kind of hubris.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • There’s a hubris in finding fault for the sake of finding fault.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
  • This is a bell-jar comedy about mankind trapped in its own hubris.
    — Armond White, National Review, 23 Feb. 2022
  • This hubris is the root cause of the dire problems now facing our seas.
    — CNN, 14 June 2019
  • This is the height of personal hubris.
    — William J Watkins Jr, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Thanks to my hubris, what was supposed to be a half hour of heating time dragged on.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The hubris from these guys is unreal if ur their partner.
    — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • My main issue is the hubris of it all — and the people who enabled it.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Not with our hubris or our lies, or our endless terror of the mortal truth.
    — Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Even some Democrats echo that point, warning their party against hubris.
    — NBC News, 4 June 2018
  • To those from other specialties, this broad claim might smack of hubris.
    — Fortune, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Even acts framed as judicial modesty mask great hubris.
    — Duncan Hosie, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Its poor design convinced many of Musk’s hubris and out-of-touch ideas.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2025
  • But this is precisely the sort of hubris that has led the country astray time and again.
    — Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Those nations that remain should have seen enough to know the dangers of hubris, though.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 June 2018
  • Those who still believe in democracy must bury the hubris that caused the old world to fail.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Youssef makes Jeff bro-ish enough to hang with this crowd but outsider enough to chafe at its hubris.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 23 May 2025
  • At the height of her hubris, Emily sneaks her fork over to my plate and steals a potato.
    — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
  • But that ultimately is some form of control and some hubris and ego on my part.
    — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The hubris that the Eagles would flip a switch was gone when the lights turned out on the season.
    — Zach Berman, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The story involves money and hubris and risk, with a human toll.
    — Elise Young, Bloomberg.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • That mix of hubris, hype and failure now serves as inspiration for the stage.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Fortunately, an item on the next page of the menu rescued me from my own spicy hubris.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
  • But good list-making requires hubris, constraint.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025

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