Sentence examples for modest like from inspiring English sources

The cemetery, save a few mausoleums, is modest, like the neighborhood that surrounds it.

Her dreams are modest, like being untethered from oxygen long enough to go out to a movie.

Instead of a five-course, triple-digit meal, settle for something more modest like jerk chicken from a roadside shack.

Often the good finds are quite modest, like a small emblematic watercolor of mountains under zigzagging lightning bolts by Rockwell Kent at Cooley.

"But the threat is that if they try to do something modest like an artillery barrage," he continues, "it can lead to unintended consequences".

"Kind of like: 'What are you going to do with them?' " AFTER a summer and fall filled with dance music extravaganzas, something more modest, like the fifth annual BROOKLYN ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL, might seem redundant.

Hercules was one of several figures from Classical mythology with whom the Medicis, ever modest, liked to identify themselves.

Not that the boozy Phyllis has any real interest in being modest: she likes being married to power and its perks.

To finish, a slab of Piemontese chocolate bonet (£5), a modest, blancmange-like milky pudding, is outclassed by a wonderfully smooth caramel ice-cream.

Opened 47 years ago in Miami Beach, the modest diner-like eatery is today flanked by Gap and Benetton clothing stores.

Next, we assessed whether these modest EMT-like changes were associated with anchorage-independent growth or invasiveness, both well-acknowledged EMT-associated oncogenic phenotypes 27.