Sentence examples for modest items from inspiring English sources

Extremely modest items sold brilliantly for what they were.

One of the most modest items, and one of the best, is the wild-mushroom soup.

And even when the objects are less than spectacular — Hunter could borrow only modest items, nothing requiring special climate control or heavy insurance — they are rich with information.

But these modest items, usually given the more refined term of "decorations" by auction houses, remain popular regardless of the economic climate.

Amid the Vienna fancy goods, bric-a-brac, cloaks and costumes, smoking jackets, porcelain dolls and Alexandre kid gloves were more modest items for customers whose desire outpaced their means.

To see how it all works, I bought and then "lost" a few modest items, including a "Star Wars" umbrella and a pair of red women's underwear the approximate size of an apron.

It was so expensive, Eric said, that he asked her to exchange it for a more modest item.

A cut of five percentage points would cost about $19 billion a year -- reducing federal receipts by less than 1percentt annually -- a very modest item in a $2 trillion federal budget.

Then, on May 2, Mitchell Fink of The Daily News included a modest item in his gossip column about the mayor's dining in an East Side restaurant with an unnamed woman.

For the first time the government has included in the institute's budget a modest item ($625,000) for such repatriation efforts.In this section Hostage, but to whom?

But there is something about those scenes of feverish activity in a West Coast airplane factory, something about the roar of motors and the suspense of a new plane's tests, that impart to this modest item a surprisingly lively agitation.