Sentence examples for modest made from inspiring English sources

Most are modest, made of brick or siding, and topped by pitched roofs.

According to a baseball official with direct knowledge of the Yankees' bid, it was said to have been modest, made with the hope that other teams might have been even more restrained in their bidding after the Daisuke Matsuzaka experience with the Red Sox, and the Yankees' debacle with Kei Igawa, who cost the team $46 million and pitched in only 16 games over two seasons.

Their relations with young men are chaste, modest, made legitimate by playing out here among the believers where everybody can see and understands the world the way they do.

The technical means used were, as often as not, modest, make do, even crude.

His actual proposals for a "growth pact" to go alongside the German-inspired fiscal treaty are modest, making it easy for Ms. Merkel to accept most of them.

Its power draw is modest, making it possible for a device the size of a smart phone to project a 90-minute movie on one battery charge.

In our current context, Willy's dreams of love, dignity and community through modest work make him a deluded loser.

Its less-than-modest name makes a bold, clear promise, right off the bat.

[C4.] Stocks Post Modest Gains Stocks made modest gains as investors snapped up some beaten-down shares.

Spain and most of eastern Europe rejected modest proposals made by Brussels to introduce quotas on a small initial scale.

Modest gains made by Democrats in the House prevented bigger losses.