Sentence examples for be modest about it from inspiring English sources

He was always ready to go, always polite and helpful". The second story Monroe could tell, though she'd likely be modest about it, is her own.

If you are discovered as being rich, be modest about it.

If you're really good, impress him, but be modest about it.

"A modest man with much to be modest about," Winston Churchill said of him once.

"He is a modest man with much to be modest about," is how Winston Churchill once described U.K. Prime Minister Clement Attlee.

It was Bordick's 17th home run of the year, extending a career high, and he was modest about it.

Using Agate as his vehicle gives Harwood the chance to air many of the old boy's prejudices and pungent quips, such as: "The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it".

He is modest about it, but Jock is part of an elite club.

Rihanna's long-sleeved frock may have had sub-elbow sleeves, but that's about all that was modest about it, as the fabric revealed her skimpy black underwear and totally-not-even-there bra.

And when it comes to foreign affairs he sometimes sounds almost liberal; for example, comparing the United States' place in the world to "a top high school student, if it is modest about its abilities and achievements, if it is generous in helping others, it is loved".

The film is due for release in the autumn, giving it a prime position ahead of awards season, and while Nichols, Egerton and Negga were modest about its prospects, the former called it "one of the most pure love stories in American history" while the latter hailed it as "one of the most important films in history".