Sentence examples for maybe modest from inspiring English sources

"I don't like the word humble; maybe modest is the better word to describe him," Mr. Harris said of his father.

Or maybe just modest.

Then maybe a modest tangle of grapes, a mound of walnuts, some bread.

The politicians could then turn to tax reform, immigration, gun violence, maybe a modest climate-change measure, and substantive oversight.

Maybe the modest prose of "Black Beauty" & "Tom Swift & His Electric Runabout are to give them pause, what of those passages of contemporary English that bewilder the contemporary reader.

A radical idea I know, but couldn't Sneed and Eldridge and that whole lot be thanked off-camera, with a nice note and maybe a modest gift or two?

Maybe a modest $100 million might be a better fit.

Maybe a modest $100 million would be a better fit.

Who knows: Maybe a modest $100 million might be a better fit.

Maybe my modest proposal to break open the museum vaults will appear as fanciful as my support for the much-maligned Arts Council.

The only new countermeasures in the national pharmaceutical stockpile are the smallpox vaccine, a larger cadre of antibiotics and, maybe, some modest increases in the botulinum and antitoxin stockpile.