Sentence examples for modest game from inspiring English sources

One might think the group would go after more modest game.

Anderson came and went – a modest game by his monumental standards – while first Broad and then Bresnan gave it a new-ball burst.

Cable, direct satellite, the VCR, and the Internet had shattered that audience into fragments during the 1980s and '90s, but in 2000 this modest game show reminded viewers of what had been one of television's greatest appeals.

Swann's replacement, Monty Panesar, also had a modest game, although Nathan Lyon notwithstanding, being expected to bowl out a Test side on what was little more than a third-day drop-in pitch, with a low total to defend, was asking a lot, especially when reverse swing was seen as the key to any chance England might have had on the fourth day.

It was supposed to be a modest game, a bunch of MaBSTOA guys who got together at this underground poker room once a week to play gin for a nickel a point.

It was hardly a level playing field yet, though – in 1904, a modest Games held as part of the World's Fair in St Louis, featured 645 men... and just six women.

Then again, it's not every day that a modest word game takes on an air of A-list sizzle.

They've settled back into their modest possession game, but they can't hold it for long enough to truly thwart DC.

The Dolphins are on a modest three-game winning streak, but they have been outgained by their opponent in all three games.

I found myself fixating on those tools of soapless ablution at two museum shows conceived in honor of the 2004 Olympics: the profuse "Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit," at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the modest "The Games in Ancient Athens," at the Metropolitan.

The loss ended the Devils' modest two-game winning streak.