Sentence examples for modest courtyard from inspiring English sources

BUJUMBURA, Burundi, 17 December 2015 – Deep within one of the recent hotspots of violence in Burundi's capital, Bujumbura, in a modest courtyard dotted with muddy puddles, sits a white-haired 89-year-old carpenter at work on a new stool.

The hotel is modest in size, with five bedrooms, a small courtyard garden and a third-floor lounge with stunning views of the village's black-tiled roofs.

Small courtyard full of plants.

Installed in a modest pebbled courtyard, they are made from stoneware and fired to a dark, leathery bronze hue, and include playful touches and trompe l'oeil effects.

Initially built as a prayer hall with five aisles and a modest central courtyard, the mosque has since been expanded multiple times with additional installations completely surrounding the original structure.

The house, set back from the road by a courtyard, was modest.

It was a neighborhood of modest ranch houses and Spanish-style courtyapartmentsents, bejewelled with Christmas lights.

On a recent evening, in the inner courtyard of a modest single-story home where I was staying, eight Syrians from several Islamist units in the area recounted tales of Chechen bravery.

SHERPAO, Pakistan — In the walled courtyard of the modest whitewashed mosque, a suicide bomber worked his way into in the middle of a packed congregation and unleashed his explosives during prayers last month, killing 53 villagers and wounding 143 others.

In a dusty little village that sits along the windswept plains of Inner Mongolia, a 43-year-old farmer named Wang Ergo has built a small dairy farm in the courtyard that leads into his modest home.

Now protected by a fortress-like wall the shrine of Mian Mir is a modest structure, standing in a spacious courtyard, brimming with pilgrims through the day.