Sentence examples for modest i from inspiring English sources

My hopes were modest: I was looking to avoid humiliation.

My function was modest; I came to cook and drive.

"Actually, I don't know why I'm being modest; I definitely know every starting player".

Mr. Truax was more modest: "I just like to go out and play with rockets".

My own role in the Berezovsky story had been modest, I said.

But Mr. Baer is at least modest: "I take no pleasure whatsoever in having been right".

"I become less modest when I see people taking away the things I had done".

"I've always been modest, but I'm not weird about it," Ms. Berlin said in a telephone interview.

The judge seems disarmingly modest, saying, "I floundered through college" and "I don't use my time as efficiently as I should".

"I'm not being falsely modest, but I didn't know why," Scully said.

I think he's being really modest because I don't think that every song is not amazing on that record.