Sentence examples for modest in a from inspiring English sources

Raghavan was more modest in a three-way conversation with Technology Review last week.

He is disarmingly modest – in a way that doesn't seem at all false or actorly.

And so Sadie came home for the holiday, and she went to temple suitably modest in a midcalf dress and closed-toe shoes.

At Roseland Ballroom on Friday night the band was earthbound, mostly, but not modest, in a terrific, thrusting show that felt bigger than even this big room.

At the Golden Globe Awards last month, Gwen Stefani was uncharacteristically modest in a high-necked, snow-white vintage satin dress.

But so far, the flow of money has been relatively modest in a disaster that economists estimate could leave up to $30 billion to $50 billion in damage, costs borne by individuals, businesses, insurers and the federal government.

For the spring semester, I am renting a small house in Claremont, Calif., a modest ranch in a modest neighborhood.

"People underestimate the impact of even modest inflation in a modest-return environment," said Harold Evensky, a financial planner in Coral Gables, Fla.

Kurosawa's grave is small, in a modest, unsheltered plot.

Yet his humble origins in modest Milwaukee in a house stricken by the depression were a good deal more prosaic.

Be modest in public: as such a woman is a lady.