Sentence examples for modest it puts from inspiring English sources

If they are too modest, it puts them at a disadvantage relative to people who are more comfortable pointing out their skills and experiences.

If C4 is to recoup the relatively modest £5m it put up to finance the film, sucking in the teen market in the summer holidays is key.

The petition that the department filed, in October, was, by comparison, quite modest; yet the arguments that it put forward strongly echoed those made by Reback.

For all the hard theorising, the era-defining sweep of his novels, DeLillo's ambition is more modest; as he puts it in Underworld, his aim is "only to understand the hidden triggers of experience, the little delves and swerves that make a state of being".

The company's modest beat puts its revenue, on a GAAP basis, up 9percentt compared to its year-ago figure.

The results have been modest, to put it mildly.

After missing his first three shots, Shurna intercepted a cross-court pass, finishing the play with an emphatic dunk – or, as the modest Shurna put it, a layup.

But even such a modest (to put it very gently) commitment would be more productive than no numbers at all.

But even being in possession of these modest attributes puts him in a different league to the weightlifters and bodybuilders who fill out – and I do mean fill out, ha ha! – the rest of the gladiatorial ensemble.

Sanders's overall deficit — he trails Mrs. Clinton by about 230 delegates — is becoming so large that winning only modest victories puts the Democratic nomination farther out of his reach.

Talent is a modest way of putting it.