Sentence examples for sounds modest from inspiring English sources

"Short" sounds modest.

That sounds modest, but is actually relatively ambitious.

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.

But although this sounds modest, if sustained for a decade or more, it would add up to something big.

In the case of PRB it's 75 years, which sounds modest in relation to Princeton, but in 1940 there was no such thing as college radio.

The pitches for funds too often sound modest and drab.

That result sounded modest a few weeks ago.

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.