Sentence examples for a modest bunch from inspiring English sources

Locals seem to welcome the influx of visitors but, being a modest bunch, are often bemused as to why anyone would choose their city for a holiday.

Indeed, the Campesinos are a modest bunch by any standard.

In the Loop was the sole unqualified success among a relatively modest bunch of new releases.

The Sulzbergers are a resolutely private and modest bunch.

Anaesthetists are by reputation a modest, self-effacing bunch but a chance meeting such as mine reminds us – and those with whom we work and treat – that we are highly trained doctors with life-saving skills that make a profound difference to our patients every single day.

It was supposed to be a modest game, a bunch of MaBSTOA guys who got together at this underground poker room once a week to play gin for a nickel a point.

What is curious is that for so long this myth was distilled and advanced not through a great monument or ceremony, a symphony or grand sculpture, but through a modest, if brilliant, sitcom about a bunch of old boys huffing and puffing their way through drills, parades and the occasional false alarm.

A modest Key lime meringue tart turns out to be the winner of the bunch, with a buttery, flaky crust and pure lime flavor.

Take a modest proposal.

Here's a modest proposal.

A modest little house designed.