Sentence examples for modest on the from inspiring English sources

But the two-CD set is modest on the outside about the total content.

The paintings are relatively modest on the outward journey to Italy.

Mr. Trichet said any increase would be modest, on the order of a quarter of a percentage point.

J. Fernandez, a band from Chicago, drew on the motoric patterns of bands like Stereolab and the shifty meters of progressive rock in songs that were modest on the surface but gently insistent.

They had a room, no doubt their most modest, on the rue Cambon side, but to me it was paradise found.

Most of the raises will be modest, on the order of 28 to 37 cents per hour, but the new rates will translate into hundreds of additional dollars annually for many people who are working yet remain in poverty.

Modest but on-the-ball displays of recent photography quietly appeared, and, for the first time, video.

ABI, a measure of peripheral artery disease, had a small but modest effect on the interarm difference mortality association.

Shares of Starbux were showing modest gains on the news, up about one half of one percent so far.

And of the dehumanizing impact of this very modest technology on the life of one little family.

Modest Mouse, on the other hand, gallops through backwoods stomps and new-wave ballads and one snappish dance-punk track.