Sentence examples for modest used from inspiring English sources

Even a modest used propeller plane can cost the equivalent of an average home.

The Governors Island proposal is much more modest, using approximately 23 million cubic yards, according to the study.

"Yet DfID only makes modest use of the considerable expertise that resides within the NHS".

The same may be true for a modest use of steroids for athletes.

The modest use of banks for saving points to what seems like the overall story that emerges from the research.

Bayrou's is cloaked in those long moments of reflection and in the occasional, assiduously modest use of the answer "I don't know".

"There's no economic consequence to a modest use of the surplus," said Thomas Gallagher, a political analyst with the International Strategy and Investment Group, an investment-advisory firm.

But to make a more modest use of Vendler's rewriting trick above, what if we kept the same enjambments, syntax, rhyme scheme and basic rhythm — yet changed some of the words?

Impatient winners keen to display their award prominently – or put it to more modest use as a doorstop or bathroom ornament – will be able to take their fully engraved statuette home after the ceremony.

While DVD's have become very popular with the other arts, producers of radio drama make more modest use of technology -- mainly through compact disc burners and the Internet to distribute their work to a wider audience.

The defense has affidavits from a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and other experts arguing that much of what Dr. Lee downloaded from a secure computer at Los Alamos was either already available publicly or would be of modest use or none to most countries, and was not even given a secret classification until after Dr. Lee had been fired last year.