Sentence examples for unnecessarily modest from inspiring English sources
While both writers are clearly successful (Wilson is currently working on her 4th book "Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling America's Fashion Destiny "), they were also being unnecessarily modest.
You needn't go all Ken doll, but some modest manicuring may reveal an extra inch of shaft that's being unnecessarily obscured by fuzz.
But as Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta heads off this weekend for his fourth trip to Asia in 17 months, criticism is intensifying among defense policy experts in Washington that the administration's "pivot" to the Pacific remains mostly verbal — a modest expansion and repackaging of policies begun in previous administrations, although still enough to unnecessarily antagonize the Chinese.
Sometimes people die unnecessarily.
They retaliated unnecessarily.
Don't drive unnecessarily!
Am I fretting unnecessarily?
This seems unnecessarily radical.
"It was unnecessarily vulgar".
