Sentence examples similar to modest bling from inspiring English sources
The clothes on the runway on Sunday came accessorized with modest bling-bling, with patchwork lizard skin pimp loafers and with the neck chains that seem to have replaced the designers' favored motif, the Sicilian coral horn.
They want bathrooms with bling bling.
It gives you some bling bling.
For ages I've had my own shorthand for that kind of modest conscientious English un-bling; I've called it "Clarks-y", after C&J Clark, the privately owned Somerset shoe business, founded by Quakers in 1825.
His jewelry is modest, given the glint of Odd Fellows bling in the room.
Or perhaps, my preference, the couple with bling in their eyes will settle on a modest affair, and leave over-the-topness to folks like the Kardashians, whose weddings are probably underwritten by off-brand liquors as hungry for the publicity as they are.
Bruni, whose fortune is estimated at €18m (£14.4m), and whose love tokens to Sarkozy included a £45,000 watch, tried to downplay the bling during the recent campaign, saying they were "modest" people and revealing she travelled around Paris on the metro disguised in a wig.
When campaigning for the presidency in 2012, he promised an end to bling, a top income-tax rate of 75% on the rich, and a modest, "normal" presidency in touch with the people.
"Oh, the bling bling!" he says, smiling.
