Sentence examples for a modest pair of from inspiring English sources

Racing Santander had just beaten Getafe thanks to an 88th-minute penalty in a game which their coach described with crushing honesty as "0-0 all the way" and which even their owner couldn't get all that excited about, merely thrusting a modest pair of fists in the air.

"Sometimes," smiles Jeremiah Rush, head geek at the Maple Grove store, who sports spiked hair and a modest pair of earrings, "it's more economical to just buy a new machine".

For instance, if you have your eye on a modest pair of flip-flops, it may not hurt to first ask for these fancy new shoes, or some Christian Louboutins.

The show ends with a small, modest pair of pastels of George and Martha Washington, both of which belong to the Wadsworth.

Among the thirty-five artists represented here are James Ensor, Sherrie Levine, Paul Delvaux, Andy Warhol, Lynda Benglis, and Damien Hirst, the latter represented not by the diamond-encrusted skull that set off waves of indignation but by a more modest pair of his-and-hers plastic-and-rubber skeletons.

A small pair of scissors.

My own goals were modest: a new pair of running shoes and some long-sleeved shirts.

It has an airport and a pair of modest football (soccer) stadiums.

After the Newtown school shooting, in 2012, there was a push to get a pair of modest bills through Congress — a ban on some assault weapons, the closing of background-check loopholes — but it failed.

Step up to the 72-hour rule before making a modest purchase like a new pair of shoes or a small piece of furniture.

The main limitation of our study is enrolment of a modest number of mother infant pairs at a single centre.