Sentence examples for a pair of modest from inspiring English sources

It has an airport and a pair of modest football (soccer) stadiums.

He had won several competitions but had built nothing larger than a pair of modest housing projects.

After the Newtown school shooting, in 2012, there was a push to get a pair of modest bills through Congress — a ban on some assault weapons, the closing of background-check loopholes — but it failed.

One of the least desired N.F.L. predicaments is a "quarterback controversy" — such a faceoff almost never ends well — and so, as quickly as the Jets traded a pair of modest draft choices to Denver, the team began billing the season as a Mark Sanchez production.

WASHINGTON -- Just over a week after the worst mass shooting in American history, the Senate failed Monday to advance a pair of modest and popular gun violence reform measures.

It's a mind-blower, promises Pete Fornatale, as he leads the way, glass of orange juice in hand, toward a pair of sofas inside the modest, not mystical, colonial he shares in Port Washington, on Long Island, with his wife and whichever of his three grown sons happens to be passing through.

A young black man wore tan jodhpurs, a pair of good jodhpur boots, and a modest polo shirt with an alligator on the chest.

Women could instead do away with the head covering, and wear a pair of plain black trousers and a modest top.

For girls, go for a shirt and slacks or a modest skirt with a pair of flats.

Although this modest restaurant, a Tribeca outpost of a pair of Paris neo-bistros, opened last year, it still felt like an undiscovered gem in 2015.

They organized an auction, sold their possessions, and used the modest proceeds to buy camping equipment and a pair of one-way air tickets to Johannesburg.