Sentence examples for modestly has from inspiring English sources

It'll be interesting to see how long kids will stick with her now". The idea to have Dora mature, albeit it modestly, has been explored before.

She dresses in traditional Pakistani attire, behaves modestly, has poise beyond her years, and pays respect to the values she was brought up with.

A woman committed to following Islam and the call by the Holy Quaran to dress modestly has to swallow the tenured Professor's constant queries if she is "wearing a bomb" in her hair underneath that scarf.

This may require you to live more modestly, have roommates, and cook more meals at home.

We started modestly, having a crack at the Gower peninsula ("Start with what you know," said my father).

But the financial realities of operating at Gunn's level – feted as a successor to Jerry Garcia and John Fahey, gigging modestly – have made his ethos near impossible for him to live by.

Despite a fortune estimated at $19bn, the 29-year old is known for living modestly, having rented for years before taking the plunge into northern California's overheated property market.

Modestly (too modestly), he has specialized in revisions of corny old Soviet ballets that have scores worth saving — by Prokofiev or Shostakovich, for example.

He lives modestly and has made sacrifices for the cause; he lost his oldest son in the war.

The concerts began modestly but have swelled in size.

The family lived modestly and had few, if any, influential friends.