Sentence examples for modestly put from inspiring English sources

Another study in 2003 more modestly put the gains to world GDP at nearly 10%.

As he modestly put it, "I get a lot of personal orders".

A slightly more personal suggestion came from one Sandeep Korotana, who modestly put forward the idea of RRS Sandeep Korotana.

We can all follow that – "I'm more Palmerston than Blair," as Fox modestly put it, more concerned with eternal British interests than with transient and sentimental alliances.

As the presumably director-approved production notes modestly put it, this is "a hymn to life, excavating answers to the most haunting and personal human questions".

They modestly put this down to Poundland starting to sell cheaper pregnancy tests, but it is also down to their excellent standards of care.

In 1940, as a teenager in The Hague under Nazi occupation, he cobbled together scavenged parts to make simple radios and, as he modestly put it, "equipped the parental home with various gadgets".

By these few words he put its price up front a few thousand pounds to something like £5,000,000 at an informed trade guess - "certainly in seven figures," as Mr Gould more modestly put it.

It was terrific fun, and it was there, clambering down the rickety wooden steps to the glorious beach below, that we surprised an elderly, naked Henry Miller, who modestly put his hat over his lap at the approach of two equally embarrassed ladies with beach bags and towels.

"It's very pointy," as Castle modestly puts it.

As he modestly puts it, he is filling in the gaps.