Sentence examples for a rather modest from inspiring English sources

For a company with such ambitious (if newfound) plans — to revive an entire genre, to succeed where so many had failed only a decade ago — they had a rather modest campaign goal: $250,000.

Switch grasses (Panicums) have a rather modest appeal.

"Were you an Olympic boxer?" "No, I had a rather modest career".

He offered a rather modest suggestion: lower the proportion of interest payments that are deductible.

Instead it has merely declared a rather modest stockpile of plutonium and dug its heels in.

The 40 "world premieres" constitute a rather modest display of lowered expectations, from a vehicular standpoint.

We are trying to do a lot in a rather modest way".

O'Reilly grew up in a rather modest household in Nassau County, Long Island.

He also offered a rather modest theory for why his store is so popular.

Later, center Nick Mangold stood at his locker and made a rather modest promise about the Jets.

So proud, in fact, that he tells the tale twice in what is, after all, a rather modest compendium.