Sentence examples for modest things from inspiring English sources

Canadians like small, modest things, right?

"These children don't get totally modest things," she said.

Respect and a little patience seem to me modest things to ask.

But Cable said Osborne's initiative would do "modest things at the margin".

In most countries of the world, cars were modest things, little bean-shaped units designed to take two or three people from here to there.

These are modest things to worry about when the payroll is soaring toward $200 million, and many of the best players in the world are earning their paychecks in the Bronx.

To avoid disappointment, it is worth cautioning that the works in this exhibition, as with most sketches, are modest, humble things.

It's a modest thing, horizontally oriented in imitation of older palm-leaf manuscripts.

Greek cuisine is a modest thing, fresh ingredients simply prepared with delicious results.

Reach is a very modest thing; to qualify, you only have to listen for five minutes in an average week.

Greek cuisine is a modest thing, a fairly limited catalog of simple pleasures, and Avra gives it honest, honorable representation.