Sentence examples for be of modest from inspiring English sources

All of them knew that the world considered sports to be of modest significance.

Because developers still cannot get financing for speculative building, he said, any such projects will be of modest size.

An infinitesimal proportion of all the people who have ever lived have witnessed a total eclipse - but now the possibility is open to anyone lucky enough to be of modest means in the West.

The defense has affidavits from a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and other experts arguing that much of what Dr. Lee downloaded from a secure computer at Los Alamos was either already available publicly or would be of modest use or none to most countries, and was not even given a secret classification until after Dr. Lee had been fired last year.

Dresses and skirts must be of "modest length," which was defined as no shorter than "just above" the knee; "trouser suits" (dressy pant suits) are welcomed as long as they are full length and matching in color (perhaps to match the queen's famously monochromatic look?).

Ciclosporine and tetracycline appear to be of modest benefit.

The market is of modest size.

Most of the showrooms are of modest size.

While striving for recognition, Oliver was of modest means.

His parents were of modest means but hardly poor.

Today's GM crops are of modest advantage and risk.