Sentence examples for a man of modest from inspiring English sources

His public financial disclosures depict a man of modest means.

He then decided to go to Paris, a costly trip for a man of modest means.

Hafner, who grew up on a farm in Sykeston, N.D., appears to be a man of modest tastes.

A man of modest demeanor, Dwight D. Eisenhower took shelter behind a small army of surrogates as presidential lightning rods.

Patricius, a man of modest means, scrimped and networked for a year to collect the needed funds.

Charles was a man of modest means — he would ultimately become a teacher — whose parents were only a generation or so removed from illiteracy.

Jake was a drunkard and a man of more modest pretensions.

Soros was said to be a man of relatively modest tastes, given the possibilities.

He is also known for entering public life as a man of somewhat modest means and becoming a much richer one while in office.

(Mr. Gephardt remains a man of comparatively modest means, after educating three children on his salary and that of his wife, an administrator for a pediatric practice).

She then screened the film, a 2011 drama about a young man of modest means who hopes to find a way out of his impoverished circumstance by winning a Quake tournament.