Sentence examples for modest if from inspiring English sources

The man is modest, if nothing else.

It is a modest if not threadbare setup.

In discussing the origins of "The Origins," Fukuyama is being modest, if not disingenuous.

Cuban efforts to promote private enterprises and expand private employment had achieved modest if uneven success.

It sold about 10,000 copies, a modest, if respectable, showing for a first novel.

Joseph Gourley designed the modest if expansive setting for the homey downstairs of Nellie's establishment.

Here the party is a bit more modest, if no less passionate.

For women's coaches, however, third-party funds are modest, if they exist at all.

If so, that would turn a modest, if distasteful, scandal into a reason for public outrage.

But although this sounds modest, if sustained for a decade or more, it would add up to something big.

His economic agenda is relatively small-bore — a bunch of modest if sensible proposals rather than a big push.