Sentence examples for modest placed from inspiring English sources

It would be preferable, he suggested, if Guy were "buried or cremated and a memorial of some sort, however modest, placed in the gardens of the society".

The pub is a modest place.

Liverpool was a more modest place.

Govt. officials took their modest place in the background.

I am staying in a modest place on the Lido.

I found a modest place of peeling plaster.

This is what Mr. Callahan does: put a big and mysterious idea in a modest place.

JERUSALEM — The world's great national museums are not modest places.

Amanda, a singer, composer, and teacher, was the survivor, finding a modest place in the London music scene.

The revivalists even succeeded in securing for Irish a modest place in the country's educational system.

NOT so long ago, Japanese restaurants were generally modest places defined by pale wood and shoji screens.