Sentence examples for down the modest from inspiring English sources
The trend for new buyers at Bantam Lake is to tear down the modest cottages and build a bigger house.
As a scientist and daughter of an officer in the US Air Force, this made me leap out of my chair and run shrieking up and down the modest length of my London flat.
When he became one of the great and funny voices in New York, he had a vocation of standing up for his departed team, once tracking down the modest plaque in a housing development that notes where the Polo Grounds used to be.
Like others, they were confident that a strong Indian batting line-up would easily be able to chase down the modest Lankan total, though the fall of Sehwag and Tendulkar in quick succession, stunned all.
We visited the alley at night in torrential rain, but prestige cars still flew up and down the modest terraced streets, eyeing us with suspicion.
The Senate spent this week searching for ways to water down the modest greenhouse gas emissions targets in the House-passed energy bill, which opponents claim — wrongly and shortsightedly — will injure the economy.
Teodora's daughter Josefina, another sufferer who Peraita-Adrados tracked down in the modest Madrid barrio of Entrevias, says her mother and aunts developed their own mechanisms for controlling the disease.
It may take a generation or more for any sensible regulation to bring our gun carnage down to the modest levels experienced by other wealthy nations.
It was early evening, but the sun was still beating down on the modest office buildings of downtown.
But the tendency in recent years has been to knock down the more modest homes built in the middle of the last century, and replace them with double-height mansions.
In fact, coal's field generals in the House have already pledged to knock down the already modest 2020 carbon target and make other additional weakening changes.
