Sentence examples for modest player from inspiring English sources

Today, it is a relatively more modest player in the world.

A: In my opinion, I think a lot of it has to do with being a modest player.

She is a modest player who eschews great virtuoso flare ups, though she has plenty of technique.

José was a modest player for the even more modest local team at this former fishing village.

Mushrooms may be the most modest player in this infinity of colour, but they supply the other great engine of autumnal change.

When the chip maker Avago Technologies went public in 2009, it seemed like a modest player in the semiconductor industry with a market value of just $3.5 billion.

Haney says Woods tended to like quiet, modest players like Jim Furyk, Steve Stricker, or droll veterans like Fred Couples and Jay Haas.

Q: In so many sports, soccer, basketball, baseball, whatever, it seems that the more modest players have more success as coaches while so many of the stars who get coaching or managing jobs don't seem to have the right temperament.

But then there are the more modest players who get exactly one vote in their one year on the ballot, perhaps because a voter was trying to be funny — each voter can list up to 10 names — or maybe trying to be nice.

Achronix is a minor player in the relatively modest-size market for F.P.G.A., or field programmable gate array, chips.

He has come full circle, becoming the modest complementary player he was for his first few seasons, but this time it is harder for him.