The phrase "a modest wall" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a wall that is not grand or ostentatious, perhaps indicating simplicity or humility in design or size.
Example: "The garden was enclosed by a modest wall, allowing the flowers to flourish without overwhelming the space."
Alternatives: "a simple wall" or "an unassuming wall".
I even built a modest wall around my house (it's a picket fence, but still).
Catching up, Rigsby, who splits her time at East Carolina University in Greenville and Yachay Tech University in San Miguel de Urcuquí, Ecuador, faces her quarry: a modest wall of sediment, about as high as she can reach.
Castro countered with a reference to the modest wall then being built by the United States along the Mexican border, and put his hand on Ramos's shoulder.
On a modest ideas wall above the desk at which he draws are pictures and slogans including a note: "Make a croque monsieur machine".
Even more fatuously, I also wished that the Brody family, which put the Picasso on the block, had given it to a museum, settling for 50 years of private pleasure from a painting they loaned to an exhibition only once, plus their name in perpetuity on a modest pasteboard wall label.
Backed by a modest gray wall, we are confronted with issues of infertility, infidelity, molestation and abandonment.
The kid-focused Discovery Science Center stands beneath the big black cube at the edge of Interstate 5 (the cube conceals a facsimile rocket) and has hands-on exhibits that cover populist themes such as the science of hockey, plus there's a modest climbing wall.
"Robert Lazzarini: Guns and Knives," at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, presents only six works, all of them modest wall sculptures of weapons.
At L.A. Louver, Matt Wedel's second solo show of nearly two dozen ceramics ranges from modest wall reliefs to elaborate and monumental sculptures, the smallest just 17 inches high and the largest reaching nearly 7 feet.
Many legislators and some economists do not believe that New York's economy is in recession, suggesting that a modest recovery on Wall Street could rectify many of the state's revenue problems.
In an example of how the world has turned upside down that was greeted with a modest reaction on Wall Street but euphoria in emerging markets, particularly those such as Indonesia and India that had been hit hard by the sell-off since May, when the Fed said it might slow its bond purchases.
