Sentence examples for modest gratitude from inspiring English sources
Niederhoffer, who wore a flattering violet-colored gown and teetering black patent pumps, was circulating among her guests with an air of modest gratitude.
Another example of the semantic change called "figurative extension" that grew out of New York speedspeech is noprollem, which originally meant "I can do it easily" but now can be a modest response to gratitude with the primary sense of "you're welcome".
With every mouthful my gratitude to Calisto Vasquez, its modest maker, swelled, while outside the human throng enjoyed the carnival rides, the sea air, the sunshine.
I received a wide variety of suggestions for modest thank-you gifts that would communicate my gratitude at a much lower cost than $20,000.
That sad, modest wish — to be kept in mind — strikes a resounding note of grief and gratitude that echoes down the ages.
That coach, Bill Holden, then a Harvard assistant, still stirs gratitude in Lin, for studying his game and for ignoring supposed shortcomings: Palo Alto's modest basketball image and Lin's Taiwanese-American lineage.
When I think back to my childhood, gratitude was a value that my parents instilled in my siblings and I. Our upbringing was fairly modest and middle-class.
