Sentence examples for modest and small from inspiring English sources

The genetic architecture of osteoarthritis is likely to be polygenic with multiple variants along the spectrum of allele frequencies contributing modest and small effects.

By reducing truth to something "small and modest," Blackburn hopes to induce its enemies to call off their siege.

It also offhandedly announces his credo — everything small and modest is beautiful and pleasing — and establishes the depth of his affinity with Kafka.

It appears that he will be heavily favored in the Belmont against what could be a small and modest group of competitors.

— I am, to put it frankly, a Chinese; that is to say, a person who deems everything small and modest to be beautiful and pleasing, and to whom all that is big and exacting is fearsome and horrid.

Built by Whitman's father, the two-story shingled house is both small and modest but also a kind of workingman's showplace, with extra-large windows and built-in cabinetry meant to advertise Walt Whitman Sr.'s woodworking skills.

The State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation has determined that the new entrances would be modest and small-scale enough not to greatly detract from the district, said Wendy Gibson, the press secretary.

The costs to businesses overall were "modest and smaller than anticipated".

While SP receipt still resulted in increased reproductive output in mir-278 knockout females, this increase was modest and smaller than in the control females.

Partly, it's the houses, a terrifically appealing mix of stately and modest, small and medium and big, very old and just plain old.

Increasingly in recent years, taxpayers with more modest incomes and smaller deductions have found they owed additional taxes under the provision.