Sentence examples for modest to be from inspiring English sources
That willingness is fairly modest, to be sure.
Gas stations, beauty shops, video storesNno building too modest to be shot at.
The wage-subsidy scheme, though, was too modest to be meaningful and the stimulus package has expired.
Those numbers might look impressive, but the deal is far too modest to be a credible deterrent to reckless foreclosure practices.
Looking ahead, her hopes are decidedly modest: "To be as independent as I can be, so I'm not a burden and can be of help to others," she said.
— I am, to put it frankly, a Chinese; that is to say, a person who deems everything small and modest to be beautiful and pleasing, and to whom all that is big and exacting is fearsome and horrid.
These were so modest as to be invisible.
It is a modest number, to be sure, but Mr. Magliocca is not complaining.
He had modest ambitions to be in important positions.
It is a "modest spread," to be sure, but as Ryan says, it's all risk-free profit.
The play is too modest to live up to this.
