Sentence examples for modest something from inspiring English sources

She stops, perhaps worrying about coming across as falsely modest – something she "really hates".

The groom will probably be King William V at some point, and it will be up to him and the missus to downscale the monarchy into something more modest — something more like what the Dutch, Spanish, and Scandinavian royals have.

He put Movie Master on the shelf and went to work on something more modest, something he thought he could present to the buying public without a lot of outside help.

But for almost every successful dish there was a modest disappointment: something that missed its mark or simply didn't seem to be taking aim at anything worth sweating over.

Despite showing designs at London Fashion Week and selling them at Selfridges, Mr. Burakowski describes a career plan as old-fashioned and modest as something from the Summer of Love.

On a more modest scale, something like this had happened on the previous mornings, too, with people, like critics after an opening night, trading notes about the stolid, earnest performance of Bill Bradley, the careful eloquence of Barbara Jordan, the banked-down fire of Jesse Jackson, and the twangy peroration of Governor Zell Miller, the new country-music star from Georgia.

As pre-seed and seed funding increasingly becomes a commodity, even in more modest Europe, something has to give.

All that is required for all these eggs to shatter is that a modest volume of something other than oil comes to market which can  power transportation, not something which costs less than tar sands oil at $80/barrel, but something cheaper than European or Asian $80 oil linked with $50/barrel taxes.

He's also very modest, which is something I appreciate very much.

"We're just trying to do something modest," said Benjamin Lee, Twitter's legal counsel.

Federer, to his credit, said something modest and very Swiss: "The pocket is getting heavy".