Sentence examples for modest towns from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Not even a $3 billion investment can transform this modest town 80 miles south of Hamburg into a thing of beauty.

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.

My home, which my father built more than 60 years ago and where my mother, at 101, still resides, sits in a densely populated, modest town.

Our first stop was Ahlat, a modest town that has fallen far from the days when it was a center of Urartian, Azerbaijani and Armenian kingdoms.

He spends his days, often in pain, at his modest town house here, where the second floor has been turned into a Labor Party office.