Sentence examples for a modest vacation from inspiring English sources

The low rents allowed regular New Yorkers -- butchers, bookkeepers, clerks -- to have a modest vacation home near the beach.

No one argues that middle-income families cannot put food on the table, pay the mortgage, own a car or two, take a modest vacation.

There used to be a basic bargain in this country that if you worked hard and played by the rules, you could own a home, afford a car, put your kids through college and take a modest vacation every year while putting enough away for a comfortable retirement.

When he made charges on that card his debt-to-limit ratio (also called Revolving Utilization) shot up because even modest vacation charges on a $5,000 card are going to result in fairly leveraged card.

When a person works 40 hours a week, he or she should be able to feed the family, put a roof over their heads and take a modest yearly vacation.

"Here in our modest vacation home," the new thinking goes, "we're just plain folks".

But the worst, he recalled, was when he showed up unexpected at his parents' modest vacation home in the Poconos.

Take a small vacation.

We went for drives in the country, shopping trips downtown and modest vacations that were always well documented.

Over faded family photos Ms. Couric explains that she grew up in a "Leave It to Beaver" family in a modest house without "fancy vacations".

During those years, my wife and I got used to a modest lifestyle: thrift shop clothes, public schools, driving vacations to visit family, no new cars.