Sentence examples for a modest storm from inspiring English sources
This ship was so unstable that it sank in a modest storm in 1870, killing 480 of the 500 people on board, including Coles.
"The fierce storm that was predicted will now be a fairly modest storm; at least that is what is now predicted," Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said in a briefing at the city's emergency command center.
"Yeah, the storm was hyped," said Peter Wichrowski, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Brookhaven, N.Y., which supplied accurate reports on the storm as it evolved from what seemed last week to be a two-day blizzard centered on New York City into what seemed last night a modest March storm.
The president, a veteran of Chicago snows who has chided Washington for its timidity in modest storms, could not resist a quip: "Snowmageddon," he said to loud applause.
The capo was overpowered without a fight after navy special forces stormed a modest fourth-floor apartment in the resort city of Mazatlán, where he was sleeping with his young wife.
At the very least, the Red Storm has a modest amount of momentum going into today's game.
Tropical Storm Felice was a modest tropical cyclone that lightly impacted parts of the Gulf Coast of the United States in mid-September mid-September 1970
It was a modest scandal at first, and then became the sort of full-scale storm that may well be looked back upon as a curious relic.
As it moved to the south, the storm crossed over an area of warmer water temperatures, and the NHC remarked that "just a modest increase in convection [would be] needed to make Epsilon a hurricane".
