Sentence examples for modest hint from inspiring English sources

This splendid proposition by the British Vacuum Cleaner Company in 1903 was followed by a modest hint: "House-cleaning being thus deprived of its terrors, it is perhaps fair to assume that quarterly cleanings will take the place of annual ones, and houses will be thereby rendered infinitely more healthy and sanitary".

Compared with other alewife stocks, the Northern New England alewife stock is performing relatively well, with some populations remaining stable and some even showing recent (albeit modest) hints of recovery (Figs  4, S3 and S4).

Though "Down with Love" is an achievement of a lower order of invention, it, too, offers a surprising, liberating payoff, which, in its own more modest way, hints at the enduring inseparability of mask and costume from the expression of the truest and deepest self.

In terms of where the body politics is at, these are modest policies which hint at big lofty ideas.

The national popular vote has been indistinguishable from 50-50 since the first debate, with hints of a modest shift back towards Obama when recent polls are added to the modeling.

Target, the discount department store chain, said this week that sales in the first part of November were below already modest expectations, and hinted that December sales were likely to be below those of a year ago.

The boy and his twin brother grew up on the streets of Northside, down in the little choke valley, befouled by industry, between the university hill to the southeast and the neighborhood to the north, College Hill, which had no college, despite its name, only modest white houses hinting at the white suburbs to come.

By C. E. Morgan The boy and his twin brother grew up on the streets of Northside, down in the little choke valley, befouled by industry, between the university hill to the southeast and the neighborhood to the north, College Hill, which had no college, despite its name, only modest white houses hinting at the white suburbs to come.

Girls who like their handbags can still use them but leave the big ugly backpacks and messenger bags at home please (Yes, I know they are a staple of a traditional nerds wardrobe but they take the whole hint of modest sexiness away from the look!).

Clementi and Ravi seem to have responded in similarly exaggerated ways to perceived hints of modest roots in the other.

The scarcity of credit not only hurts homeowners but also has broad economic repercussions at a time when consumer spending and employment are showing modest signs of improvement, hinting at a recovery after two years of recession.