Sentence examples for a modest player in from inspiring English sources

When the chip maker Avago Technologies went public in 2009, it seemed like a modest player in the semiconductor industry with a market value of just $3.5 billion.

A: In my opinion, I think a lot of it has to do with being a modest player.

José was a modest player for the even more modest local team at this former fishing village.

Today, it is a relatively more modest player in the world.

Mushrooms may be the most modest player in this infinity of colour, but they supply the other great engine of autumnal change.

Achronix is a minor player in the relatively modest-size market for F.P.G.A., or field programmable gate array, chips.

Sumyk, a modest club player in his youth in Brittany, left for Florida in his 20s and eventually began coaching Meilen Tu, the former tour player from the United States who is now his wife and Azarenka's agent.

As the thin red line of British tennis thickened to a modest eight players in Melbourne on Friday, Johanna Konta, who plays in the first round on Tuesday, was at least favoured to be still standing as long as any of the others.

This month the club lost the free-agent shortstop Jose Reyes, widely considered its best player, to the Miami Marlins, and its extremely modest player acquisitions in recent weeks suggest the team is not operating like a big-market, marquee team.

Thome's detractors say he has led the league in homers only once, he has never been in the top three in the most valuable player voting, he has 2,062 strikeouts, which is the third-highest career total, and his 1,942 hits are modest for a player in his 18th season.

But Hunter said he could agree to a modest reduction in the players' 57 percent guarantee of basketball revenues.