Sentence examples for modest town from inspiring English sources
Children, calling out to each other in Italian, were playing soccer in the modest town square.
He lived in the modest town of Winchelsea (not far from Geelong, where Garner was born).
Those who attend the raffles sit in stiff-backed chairs in an upstairs room in the modest town hall here.
To take a small example, the modest town of Charlottesville in Virginia has 13 water authorities.Not surprisingly, investment in water has been patchy and neglected.
"We never thought we would make it," Mr. Mushkarova, a Russian immigrant, says over tea in the kitchen of his modest town house.
Not even a $3 billion investment can transform this modest town 80 miles south of Hamburg into a thing of beauty.
In the East they became town dwellers, though a few were agriculturalists proprietors of small estates, rarely themselves tillers of the soil, inhabiting the more modest towns.
"DUANE HOPWOOD" -- Matt Mulhern, an actor and director who spent his childhood summers in Long Port, knows people who work in glitzy Atlantic City casinos but live in the modest towns nearby.
They were a quiet, private, modest couple from a small town in Virginia who never wanted to be famous.
The relatively small white 1720s Cabildo, Buenos Aires's modest colonial town hall, is now a museum (cabildonacional.gob.ar).
Guernica, spelled Gernika in its native Basque, is a modest market town – it has a population of 16,000 – and everyone seems to know each other.
