Sentence examples for sound modest from inspiring English sources

The pitches for funds too often sound modest and drab.

The warming has moved in fits and starts, and the cumulative increase may sound modest.

That may sound modest, and it is, but the volume is about what Mr. Finkelstein expected.

This may sound modest, but it'll price many older learners out of higher education altogether.

"I actually hate looking at myself," he says, managing to sound modest without being cloyingly self-effacing.

A 7% reduction in spending every year may sound modest, but will be eye-watering in practice.

"Short" sounds modest.

That sounds modest, but is actually relatively ambitious.

That result sounded modest a few weeks ago.

Promoting each of those sounds modest, practical and nonideological - which is precisely the point.

The scope sounds modest, yet this book is haunting even by Mr. King's standards.