Sentence examples for modest of his from inspiring English sources
He was modest of his achievements and expressed embarrassment at being the only New Zealand VC recipient of the Gallipoli Campaign.
Newton himself had been rather more modest of his own achievements, famously writing in a letter to Robert Hooke in February 1676: If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
He takes modest pleasure in the modest routines of his life.
Two modest examples of his own fallibility.
Blustein has a few modest suggestions of his own.
He had a modest office of his own.
Equally chilling is his modest account of his own, um, achievements.
(His modest description of his tenure as a "whirlwind of accomplishment" was an Olympian piece of overstatement).
His poetry is imbued with the modest substance of his life.
Throughout the interview, Mr. Gore offered an uncharacteristically modest assessment of his grasp of detail.
But then, Cruz is a man with a modest view of his own historical importance.
