Sentence examples for modest shops from inspiring English sources

Its modest shops are groaning with food and goods of all types.

The legacy of this socialism is still evident in the bad roads and modest shops, and diplomats complain that it is difficult to find clothes to buy.

This last point could well be true, but they seem over-eager to dismiss what is already there: those modest shops are livelihoods, and lives, for somebody.

"The market isn't here for that," said George Fulton, whose own development plans included more modest shops and the aquarium idea.

It had housing, and even quite modest shops – now all that's left of the commercial activity that once gave the capital its distinctive street life is a Tesco Express, a Waterstone's and, further along towards Pall Mall, the offices of various implausible Central Asian airlines with names like GhengisAir.

By usual American standards, it is still a modest shopping spree.

By Russell Maloney The New Yorker, May 23 , 1936P. 11 Gentleman got caught in thunderstorm and dropped in modest shop for umbrella.

While modest shopping centers may emerge, there are few large plots remaining and increasingly strict environmental regulations.

At first glance, Mr. Ribaudo's modest shop seems less busy than the colorful deli counters and vegetable stands nearby.

The sports shoes and watches that I saw in modest shopping malls in Nairobi were the precursors of more sophisticated goods to come.

Along which lines the school occupies not a formal campus but a modest shop on busy Marchmont Street in Bloomsbury among neighborhood hairdressers, closet-size newsstands and cheap restaurants.