Sentence examples for modest words from inspiring English sources

Athill is real and feisty with a great Miss Marple voice and, despite her modest words in the prologue, well up to it.

"Drop Dead Healthy" submits Mr. Jacobs's body to a two-year, organ-a-month study plan as he pursues the goal of becoming, in his own modest words, "the healthiest man alive".

But it is the story of Mr. Guerrero's life, told in his own modest words, that is richer and more urgent, particularly when he writes about serving as the sole dove on a draft board during the Vietnam War, which cost him a lucrative 20-year career at House & Garden.

Other media outlets, some working almost as quickly as Weisenthal, chose far more modest words.

Modest words, so it was left to Greenway to extol the virtues of her team-mate.

These are modest words for a young man with the golfing world on a tee, but they are entirely in keeping with his character.

It is extraordinary, given its modest word count, how full and devastating a world is created.

Then again, it's not every day that a modest word game takes on an air of A-list sizzle.

"The modest wording change in the G-7 statement was important," said Peter Hooper, chief economist at Deutsche Bank Securities.

The Microsoft filing yesterday came in response to one by the government on Monday in which the government made a few modest wording changes.

All heads swiveled when an unassuming woman perched on a folding chair in the corner urged Ms. Rashad to pay attention to a modest word that risked passing without notice in the rush of bantering verse.