Sentence examples for from a modest from inspiring English sources

"I come from a modest background.

From a modest but complicated task came a dramatic innovation.

Keen was a socialist from a modest, single-parent background.

Born in Woodford, Essex, he came from a modest background.

A ferocious cost-cutter, he worked from a modest office.

She is articulate, likeable, and comes from a modest background.

"Coming from the banlieue and from a modest background gave me a huge energy," he said.

It rises from a modest ridge above the farming village of Wachendorf.

Obama has gone from a modest favorite to win re-election to, probably, a slight underdog.

Rousseau, the son of a tinsmith, came from a modest background.

Merlot dominates the blend in this overachieving wine from a modest appellation.