Sentence examples for very modest things from inspiring English sources

It can be a magnificent bath, or getting into bed, eating salad or drinking Château Margaux… All very modest things – not a cruise to the tropics, just anything that helps you live.

Reach is a very modest thing; to qualify, you only have to listen for five minutes in an average week.

I tend to be very modest about these things, but I thought we had a really good shot at screenplay because in all the awards running up to that, we were winning for screenplay.

Tom: Very minor things.

He described piling up very small things.

Nautical sports had a very modest role a curious thing for a nation of sailors, but the fact is the Greeks were by origin Indo-Europeans from the interior of the Eurasian continent.

Be very modest about your work though, don't post things you do on social networking sites.

The one other thing that I saw was just a very modest test, automatic matching beta test, trying to extend reach of advertiser.

According to supernova expert J. Craig Wheeler of the University of Texas, Austin, "the most interesting thing about this work is that this classic supernova explosion is of very modest mass".

"He was very modest.

"He's very modest.