Modifies a noun

• beginning: We started from very humble beginnings with a youth worship event in our town.

• pie: An unscheduled lesson in physics for him, some humble pie for me.

• petition: The humble Petition of John Sleigh Esquire, late Mayor of Barwick upon Tweed, was this Day read.

• abode: We know how little there is to tempt anyone to our humble abode.

• opinion: In my humble opinion, his prose is the best I've ever read.

• servant: Your role is therefore to become their humble servant.

Modifying Another Word

• relatively: The son of a railroad worker from Oswestry, he came from a relatively humble background.

• however: Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Infinitive complement

• admit: First let me be so humble as to admit I have never visited you forums before.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: He is like a sponge soaking up knowledge, he is always making me feel so humble in his company.

• stay: Can I give you this warning: stay humble.

• seem: However, apart from a few rehearsed lines, Tom Delonge actually seemed reasonably humble, which was a bit of a shock.

Preposition: in

• heart: The Servant of the Lord is going to be, as we heard in chapter 11.29: gentle and humble in heart.