Sentence examples for a modest paragraph from inspiring English sources

(In Lears's book, he shares a modest paragraph with the Congregationalist minister Henry Ward Beecher, in which both men deny the existence of luck).

To me, it sounded and read and looked more like a modest few paragraphs of prose (with a lot to be modest about).

The paragraph is a modest island, surrounded on either side by a sea of white space and wholly contained within the gently curving shores of a pair of parentheses.

A sentence, a paragraph, a word, Whatever.

Take a modest proposal.

Here's a modest proposal.

A modest little house designed.

It had a modest impact.

It is a modest proposition.

A modest backlash was inevitable.

Some earn a modest pension.