Sentence examples for modest structures from inspiring English sources

This show is dominated by a series of exquisitely modest structures, most involving jewel-colored paper, often hand-painted.

But Julian Casablancas's hoarse, distorted voice confessed to longings that sounded genuine, and the modest structures were intently focused and surreptitiously catchy.

These modest structures were built as they might have been in a small frontier town, starting with the use of salvage lumber.

There were also temples dedicated to the cult of the gods throughout the country, but most of these were modest structures.

Some 50,000 Haitians now live there, having invested an estimated $60 million in buying plots and building modest structures on the hillsides.But the land was only half-promised.

Board and batten siding, sometimes found in Carpenter Gothic houses and very modest structures, differs from the common clapboard in that it consists of vertical wood boards with their butt joints covered by battens (narrow strips), imparting a seamed appearance.

The first Cliff House was a modest structure built in 1863 by Senator John Buckley and C. C. Butler.

From the outside it is nondescript: a modest structure painted white with a neighboring bell tower.

The Capitol's original dome, completed in 1824, was a modest structure, made of wood covered with copper.

The discovery in 1946 of the magnificent murals embellishing the rooms of an otherwise modest structure astounded the archaeological world.

The modest structure, interpreted as a scribe's workroom, was the oldest-known Mayan house (not part of a temple) to be inscribed with glyphs.