Sentence examples for modest stations from inspiring English sources

They're a pleasure to walk through, but more modest stations would have worked just as well.

"I've grown used to my modest station in life," he said.

He does not have a license and sits in the passenger seat of their modest station wagon.

But she has ideas well above this modest station and has soon used her intimacy with the family to ensnare her employer's son Rawdon – her first step up the social ladder.

Rousseau senior had an equally glorious image of his own importance; after marrying above his modest station as a watchmaker, he got into trouble with the civil authorities by brandishing the sword that his upper-class pretentions prompted him to wear, and he had to leave Geneva to avoid imprisonment.

The CLC later constructed a modest station with one timber-built platform immediately adjacent to the stadium and this opened on 21 August 1935.

Its modest broadcast stations enjoy robust profit margins but provide only a very small slice of the company's revenue.

Initially he is to be jailed in a modest police station cell — a striking contrast with the rented mansion in which he lived in Chile.

It's a short walk from the Rhode Island state capitol, boasting the fourth biggest self-supported marble dome in the world, to the modest railway station in Providence.

Crippled, Catholic, and of modest social station, Pope relies on influential friends, adroit flattery, and prodigious wit to gain access to the heady coffeehouses and fashionable drawing rooms on which his success depends.

The emphasis on the importance of poetry as a way of eternizing human achievement and of creating a lasting memory for the poet himself is appropriate to a friendship between a poet of modest social station and a friend who is better-born.