Sentence examples for modest bite from inspiring English sources

A modest bite on the left of the sun grew, turning it into a deep crescent.

Sony's online music channel, Sony Connect, accounts for only a modest bite of the overall music download market, compared to 70% or more (depending on whom you ask) for Apple's iTunes Music Store.

The hand-to-hand political combat between candidates, who must inch along in their own fund-raising in relatively modest bites, and these groups, which are able to leapfrog ahead with the help of a single giant donation, casts in bold relief the kind of outsized influence corporate and individual megadonors to such organizations can exert on specific races.

A small bite of chocolate, a modest sip of wine.

Such skillfully priced products are a big part of the reason analysts estimate the economic slump will take a modest 6% bite out of Apple's earnings for the quarter ending in March.

Thanks to these modest gestures, each bite became a meditation on the ancient compatibilities of salt, fish, lemon and oil, with scant resemblance to the sardines pried from the gridlock of a can.

These funds can be especially helpful when market gains are modest — because taxes take a proportionately bigger bite out of those returns at those times.

Its sequestration relief for 2015 is very modest, doing little to mitigate sequestration's bite.

And this does not take into account the taxation of those benefits nor the rising health care costs that take a larger and larger bite out of those already modest benefits.

While extra energy costs have taken a sharp bite out of those with relatively modest incomes, oil's overall economic impact has been muted so far.

coustani, were identified as malaria vectors but their generally low densities and sporozoite infection prevalence resulted in relatively modest transmission intensity of just over 1 infectious bite per year (Table 1).