Sentence examples for modestly popular from inspiring English sources

The band released a pair of slapdash but memorable (and modestly popular) albums and then, three years ago, suddenly broke up, because Graham was increasingly stressed out by the prospect of turning his larkish band into a serious concern.

For a week, Aura shares her bed — but not, to her chagrin, her body — with Jed, a mooching comedian who makes modestly popular YouTube videos with titles like "Nietzschean Cowboy".

High-street bookshops, which carry a reasonable selection of what publishers call "mid-list" and "back-list" titles that is, modestly popular and somewhat out-of-date books—are struggling.

Free schools, designed and - in some cases - run by parents, teachers, or charities, have proved a modestly popular idea with the public - there were 281 bids to open new schools this September.

His main business, Phoenix Satellite Television, has hard-to-win broadcasting rights in China, along with Chinese-language programming abroad and a modestly popular Web site.

Consistent with our hypothesis, the volume of skin cancer and recreational tanning coverage in popular magazines increased, albeit modestly, after the 2006 IARC report.

The floating shuttles are the latest brainstorm of Paris City Hall, which has already introduced another modestly priced transportation alternative – Vélib rental bikes – which immediately turned into a popular cultural phenomenon.

Other popular choices include the crab and grilled queenies (scallops), and everything is modestly priced.

The recording sold modestly at first; the book, published posthumously in 1954, went on to become his most popular work in America.

Although popular as a touring band, the band's two studio albums have sold somewhat modestly -- a total of 15 million albums worldwide.

Among them, his former manager with the Maroons, Tommy Gorman, remarked that Siebert was popular with his fellow players and was a great defenceman who "lost fairly and won modestly".