Sentence examples for modest plate from inspiring English sources

She served me heaping portions of every dish and herself a modest plate of yogurt, rice, and spinach.

The menu changes every two weeks, and gives you about three or four choices for each of three savory courses, followed by a pre-dessert soup of cold rice and tea, then a modest plate of Korean cookies.

This herby Creole sauce -- spelled on the menu "Kreyol," the Haitian way -- threads through the food, making a meal of onions, peppers and plump shrimp ($14) and adding intrigue to a modest plate of dark meat chicken ($9).

There was also an increased output of secular silver because of the rise of the middle classes; the English mazers (wooden drinking bowls with silver mounts) and the silver spoons with a large variety of finials are examples of this more modest plate.

Small plates, small portions, modest prices and grand ambitions.

Modest selections include the exclusive Potagère line of hand-thrown tableware (a small plate is $95; medium, $110) and a group of four vases ($340 for the set).

The portion of my sample prawn orzo was a modest but polished plate of food, the dense bisque and silky grains of pasta elegantly punctuated by small bursts of tart, sweet semi-dried tomato.

I want modest sharpness on my plate, not armageddon.

Designed by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino and Karola Torkos, using the undulating circles and lines used in topography maps, Topoware bowls are marked "full," "hungry" and "very hungry"; plates read "modest," "moderate" and "greedy".

Others just apply a simple rule: "If it's pretty, and I can afford it," says Roger Reid, 53, a systems analyst from Yonkers, N.Y., who owns what he calls a "modest" collection of 200 plates.

4OHT-induced HR in each cell line showed a modest dependence on the plating density of cells (Figure 2D).