Sentence examples for the modest length from inspiring English sources

As a scientist and daughter of an officer in the US Air Force, this made me leap out of my chair and run shrieking up and down the modest length of my London flat.

Given the modest length of the course, players will be using a driver only half a dozen times a round and often wedged approaches can be set up by mere long irons from the tee.

Long closed to public access, Battery Townsley opened to the public last month in an open house; visitors can now view the battery and the modest lengths of the tunnels.

If you want to read a single book of modest length on the lives (less so the work) of the later Romantics, this might very well be the one.

The fable has traditionally been of modest length, however, and the form reached its zenith in 17th-century France in the work of Jean de La Fontaine, whose theme was the folly of human vanity.

Despite its modest length, the book sometimes grows repetitive and even feels padded at points.

They wanted a serious assessment by someone outside the industry, at a relatively modest length of 30,000 words.

But for a book of modest length that is, on the surface, the perfect highbrow beach read nineteen-sixties Manhattan aread nineteen-sixtiesk about parties and sex, often while at an actual beach—"Talk" is weirdly arduous.

But for a book of modest length that is, on the surface, the perfect highbrow beach read — nineteen-sixties Manhattan art-world denizens talk about parties and sex, often while at an actual beach — "Talk" is weirdly arduous.

Portal was kept to a modest length in case the game did not go over well with players.

Fetch these young women some dressing gowns of modest length and opacity upon the nonce!