Sentence examples for nearly as modest from inspiring English sources

The grave is modest (though, interestingly was the only one in the cemetery with posh, fresh flowers), but not nearly as modest as his nearby summer house, which is inconceivably tiny for a prime ministerial residence.

Lurie was nearly as low.

Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey is 96 now, nearly deaf and barely mobile, as modest as her faded house in this Washington suburb.

And since a modest exercise bout does not burn nearly as many calories as an intense one, people who exercised modestly ended up with very few extra calories burned afterward.

Mr. Michaelis in his biography describes Schulz as extremely generous, devoted to his children, modest and funny, and Joyce as energetic, capable and vibrant, but those traits do not get nearly as much space.

Economic activity elsewhere was described as modest.

Suggs is nearly as impressive.

Rochester, Pittsburgh and San Diego are nearly as stern.

Nearly as tangled as that last sentence.

This is disappointing, but not nearly as disappointing as it would have been if negotiators had simply scaled back the ambitions for the Doha round to the sorts of modest tinkering on which they could readily agree.

This diddy keyboard is nearly as good.