Sentence examples for modest collection of from inspiring English sources

And while others collected dolls, Ms. Dunne amassed a modest collection of vintage perfume bottles.

I often used my allowance to increase my mother's modest collection of her writings.

Competitor Rick Santorum, by contrast, has only a modest collection of endorsements.

"The Citizens Advice Bureau put the word out to the city's modest collection of heroin addicts," Wright remembers.

Selections from Bovet's modest collection of Chinese melodies were soon pinned onto numerous cylinder music boxes for export to China.

There were cans of beans, a jumbo box of Corn Flakes, tea bags, a modest collection of mismatched dishes and a gallon of whole milk in the refrigerator.

It is a paper trail that would make a small collection of telephone directories appear modest.

We initially screened a small collection of these inhibitors and found modest levels of potency.

The suspect in the shooting is a 15-year-old boy from the same neighborhood — a modest, orderly collection of small-scale subsidized housing units.

Bronx Museum of the Arts New World Hispanic culture is a highlight of the Bronx Museum, which opened a small gallery a few years ago to display rotating exhibitions of its modest collection.

The prize of her modest collection is one that is perfectly intact, still on the branch where it was built, given to her by a neighbor boy when she was living in Pound Ridge, N.Y., some 10 years ago.