Sentence examples for a modest showing from inspiring English sources

Last Saturday, some 4,000 young people competed at the armory, a modest showing, considering that some meets attract as many as 6,000 athletes.

ABC's latest "Bachelor" spinoff, "Bachelor Pad," attracted a modest showing in the ratings on Monday, earning 6.4 million viewers from 8 to 10 p.m., according to Nielsen's estimates, enough to lift ABC to second place for the night.

They are 2-0 despite a modest showing by Sanchez, who after throwing for 182 yards flogged himself for committing two more turnovers, and an ankle injury to the All-Pro center Nick Mangold, who hobbled around in a boot and on crutches.

The only new Broadway musical of the summer, "Bring It On," grossed $472,810 in its first full week after opening on Aug. 1, a modest showing at the box office that was still promising enough for the producers to announce a three-month extension of performances.

Huatai Securities, which raised $2.3 billion in Shanghai last month, is hovering about 11 percent above its starting price — a modest showing in the mainland Chinese market, where new issues were, in more buoyant times, often heavily oversubscribed and frequently more than doubled in price upon debut.

On Wednesday evening, Nicole Miller staged a modest show inspired by Coney Island.

And the admission price, $17 for adults, is nothing short of breathtaking for a modest show of this kind.

With a cast of unselfish character actors melding into a rollicking ensemble, "Little Ham" was a modest show that blew out a tiny house.

It was a modest show, with two masked singers, a red dancing demon and a four-member band shrouded in dark-green plastic netting.

It's a modest show, although generally reflective of the depth and variety of marine images in the center's vast collection.

It is a modest show of panels and images, taking up just 3,000 square feet, but it is part of a renovation and modernization costing more than $550 million.