Sentence examples for humble starting from inspiring English sources

Indeed, very little remains of the humble starting point of Joe D, Lefty, Frankie and the rest.

This is just a very, very humble starting point.

"It's humbling, starting over," the comedian Gad Elmaleh confessed at Joe's Pub, last week.

It may not be fancy, but the space is a huge leap from the group's humble start in 2009.

From these humble starts, co-op banks, diaries and shops opened in almost every community in the country.

An average of 400 viewers have logged on to each gig, a humble start for a company that launched officially in April 2013.

At the humble start of his Momofuku empire, David Chang pivoted from French training to ramen and pork belly in a sliver of East Village space.

A native of Trinidad who was raised in New York by her strict great-aunt and great-uncle, Ms. Carroll had the same drive and humble start as Mr. Scott.

It sketches out Kent's career, from his humble start as the son of a rural joiner and his first job as a coach-painter in Hull.

In certain cities, it's simply the reality: Seattle, for instance, where the now universally recognised green mermaid got her humble start.

Since it began as a humble start-up in 2008, short-term property rental site Airbnb has hosted 15 million guests, with a community now spanning some 34,000 cities in 190 countries.