Sentence examples for Modest smile from inspiring English sources

A modest smile perhaps.

Later, on the podium, there was a modest smile.

Nothing but a modest smile, and a back-to-business resumption of play.

Soon Mr. Rayman, a soft-spoken man with a modest smile, was experimenting with his own tricks.

With his tall, spare frame, dry humour, modest smile and incisive questions Manton had a catalytic effect on any meeting or gathering.

Indeed I was, I replied with a modest smile, looking over to the Moll for the mocking smile that usually greeted these occasional little boosts to my ego.

Here he was, this quiet, modest, smiling old man, who never took any credit for amazing inspiration he gave to countless people.

"From his understated gestures to his cocky-modest smile, from his twirl of the club as a perfect shot hangs in mid-flight to the image Sunday evening of his huge hug with his father beside the 18th green at Congressional Country Club, he makes us think, 'There's the real thing'".

But those small smiles, hinted smiles, half smiles — flirtatious, or modest, or just inviting smiles — come to them as naturally as the first babbled words.

The troops smile, modest and delighted.

Expressions of humility such as a slight smile, modest dress or eyes directed downward show characteristics of self-regulation, forgiveness and modesty— or the virtue of temperance.