The phrase "modest endeavors" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe small or humble efforts or attempts in various contexts, such as personal projects or community initiatives.
Example: "Despite their modest endeavors, the team made a significant impact on the local community."
Alternatives: "humble efforts" or "small attempts".
It was a modest endeavor, and he sold it in 1985 to what is now Time Warner.
The history of the Caernarvon project illustrates the difficulties encountered even by what is, compared with the magnitude of the problem, a relatively modest endeavor.
"Anamorph" is a far more modest endeavor in aesthetic and intellectual terms: It's self-conscious about its influences without being self-reflexive.
Congressmen don't run much except their own offices, and, even in that modest endeavor, Weiner was hardly known as a great manager.
On Wednesday Arena will mount a New Play Festival, a fairly modest endeavor that features full productions of works by Melanie Joseph and Claudia Rankine and by the Rude Mechs theater troupe as well as readings of works by, among others, Rajiv Joseph, whose "Gruesome Playground Injuries" and "Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo" are both opening in New York this year.
For many years, the Drumthwacket Foundation was a modest endeavor, aimed at "curating" and preserving the historic 19th century mansion.
Though the party has always been a modest endeavor, it's hard to overstate the mark it's made, both as a landing pad for international artists, and as a platform for local talent.
As an income-generating business, the Mutual network was a modest endeavor at the start: in the first eleven months of 1935, the cooperative garnered $1.1 million in advertising, compared to NBC's $28.3 million and CBS's $15.8 million.
In such endeavors, even modest investments can yield extraordinarily quick and large returns.
