Sentence examples for modest household from inspiring English sources

He was born into a modest household in Salford, Greater Manchester, to Hilda and Tom Davies.

O'Reilly grew up in a rather modest household in Nassau County, Long Island.

He grew up in a modest household, the son of shop owners.

In his new master's relatively modest household, Francois Courvoisier's duties encompassed those of valet, butler and handyman.

Depression pervades the modest household, where the father sits distractedly strumming his oud for lack of anything better to do.

Industrious, amiable, and shrewd, surrounded by his modest household, and keenly sought after as an artist, he pursued a successful career into old age and amassed a comfortable fortune.

A study by insurers esure uncovering this also reveals that the outsourcing of labour is most prominent among under-35s, and that one in four "modest" households – where annual earnings are less than £20,000 – regularly employs domestic staff.

Estate inventories show that even modest households were buying more varied clothing, a wider range of furniture, kitchen articles, books, and other items their ancestors could not have afforded.

She would ask us to consider all the other economies and spaces impacted by the massive gentrifications of the modern city – not least, the resultant displacements of modest households and profit-making, neighbourhood firms.

The corporatising of access and control over urban land has extended not only to high-end urban sites, but also to the land beneath the homes of modest households and government offices.

And with their unexpected finding of cacao in the pottery of modest households, they have opened up a door to considering chocolate consumption as something enjoyed by a broader population, not just as a rare exotic good kept by an elite for ritual use.