Sentence examples for a modest structure from inspiring English sources

From the outside it is nondescript: a modest structure painted white with a neighboring bell tower.

The Capitol's original dome, completed in 1824, was a modest structure, made of wood covered with copper.

The first Cliff House was a modest structure built in 1863 by Senator John Buckley and C. C. Butler.

Though originally a modest structure, it was destroyed and restored so often that it is impossible to know the appearance of the first building.

The scale and site of the building, a modest structure on a tiny piece of land surrounded by gargantuan towers, demanded something bold; Mr. Cloepfil's tendency is toward the precious.

Adnan Abu Amer, a political analyst in Gaza, said the Salafists, especially those engaged in violence, had only a "modest structure" in Gaza that lacks popular support, making it easier for Hamas to curb them.

One of the best new works of architecture in New York isn't a flashy skyscraper or museum but a fairly modest structure, an angular glass canopy over an obscure but busy pedestrian street called North End Way, in the shadow of One World Trade Center no less.

After exploring the brochs this walk wanders further up the glen, eventually reaching a more modest structure, Suardalan bothy, now used as a walker's shelter and a welcome rest spot on open and exposed terrain.

The discovery in 1946 of the magnificent murals embellishing the rooms of an otherwise modest structure astounded the archaeological world.

And within its modest structure (this is resolutely a multiplayer game, with only a handful of single-player and co-op missions bolted on) it provides moments of genuinely breathtaking drama.

The modest structure, interpreted as a scribe's workroom, was the oldest-known Mayan house (not part of a temple) to be inscribed with glyphs.