Sentence examples for started with a modest from inspiring English sources

On the advice of tiling contractors, I started with a modest backsplash project, which turned into a headboard project, which earned a spot in our local dump.

It follows their purchase last May of a majority stake in the Hong Kong fair, which started with a modest 80 galleries in 2008 and quickly grew to the largest event of its kind in Asia.

Speakeasy, published every other month by the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, started with a modest printing of 17,000 copies and the announced intention "to engage readers on a deeper level, focusing on the interaction of literature with the larger culture".

It all started with a modest call for a "Day without an Immigrant" on February 14 -- Valentine's Day -- in Philadelphia.

Harris recommends starting with a modest length of time (five or ten minutes) and then trying to sit for longer.

Starting with a modest camera received as a wedding present, Aaron Siskind (1903-1991) became one of the greats of American photography, noted for the abstract imagery that linked him with painters of the New York School.

Starting with a modest merger of coal and steel industries in 1951, the architects of the modern European Union have progressively dismantled barriers to the free movement of people and goods, and gradually turned slogans about a continent without borders into a reality.

Start with a modest goal: raise $50,000.

"The Words,"a romance thriller starring Bradley Cooper, is projected to start with a modest $7 million.

Start with a modest, small cough.

The Irish investment duo started with a relatively modest £1.6 billion plan to build mainly apartments.