Sentence examples for modest catch from inspiring English sources
Yet, despite the Ministry of Fisheries' claim that whale "tastes delicious and is very healthy", and despite the low prices at which Norway's modest catch is sold, it still has whalemeat left over for export.
Even an afternoon spent with experienced fishermen using cast nets yielded a very modest catch, adding further weight to my growing perception that, at least in that stretch of river in Laos, fishing required considerable effort for a small return.
Open Sun-Wed 4.30pm-midnight, Thurs-Sat 4.30pm-2am Found en route to the Titanic Quarter by the so-called Big Fish sculpture (actually a modest catch), Wolf & Devour is a street food van that deals in large meaty portions of rib-sticking fodder.
Next to the fictional "Friday Night Lights" or the labor- and-time-intensive documentaries of Mr. Wiseman, "On Freddie Roach" is necessarily a modest, catch-as-catch-can affair, and through the first two episodes it doesn't have much of a focus or a narrative thread.
During the 1970s and 80s, Western Australia had a modest bream catch of around 26 tonnes per year, a figure which rocketed to 103.9 tonnes in the 1992/3 season before receding to around 28 tonnes per year since 2000.
Touchdown celebrations are modest, moping about catch totals is frowned upon, and, to date, there have been no pronouncements to the masses to get their popcorn ready.
Buyers of much more modest means are caught in the same currents.
On being invited back to meet her parents, David walks into their modest living room to catch Jenny's father Jack making an apparently antisemitic remark.
ICE is catching modest numbers of undesirables, but also a much larger by-catch of peaceable immigrants.
Young people from families of modest means face a Catch-22: without a college education, they are condemned to a life of poor prospects; with a college education, they may be condemned to a lifetime of living at the brink.
It was the late 1990s and Mr. Vedder was in Hawaii, decompressing after a tour with his band, Pearl Jam, when one of those modest, four-stringed instruments caught his eye in an out-of-the-way drugstore.
