Sentence examples for a modest place from inspiring English sources

The pub is a modest place.

I am staying in a modest place on the Lido.

I found a modest place of peeling plaster.

The revivalists even succeeded in securing for Irish a modest place in the country's educational system.

This is what Mr. Callahan does: put a big and mysterious idea in a modest place.

Amanda, a singer, composer, and teacher, was the survivor, finding a modest place in the London music scene.

"Our buyers come to a very modest place that looks a bit like Ali Baba's cave, a place where you really need to look around if you want to find that rare pearl," Mr. Piguet said.

But friends say that Mrs. Pirro and the couple's two children are likely to opt for a more modest place that is a reasonable distance from her office in White Plains and the children's private school, which is not far from their current home.

Liverpool was a more modest place.

The Pears soon plan to sell their house overlooking a lake, with no idea where they'll live next, other than that it will be a more modest place.

The students were mostly boys (girls occupied only a very modest place), and of course they were usually free citizens (masters, though some slaves were given a professional education occasionally reaching a high level).