Sentence examples for was both modest from inspiring English sources

She looked for a garment that was both modest and suitable for sports.

Neither underplaying nor overplaying what it had to offer, Camper Van Beethoven was both modest and completely obstinate.

Smith is a modest fellow for a professional politician, a person of neat and orderly habits, and his aspiration for the parliamentary new session was both modest, and revolutionary in context.

It was both modest and sexy, which perfectly fits my personality of embracing paradoxes.

Mr. Eizenstat said the fees were "both modest and fair".

"Munyurangabo" is both modest and ambitious.

They are both modest and profound, ranked roughly from youngest to oldest.

The song's hope is both modest and immaterial, McKinnor told me.

They were both modest bills, environmentalists say, but both died on the first day of the session, hours after Mr. Freudenthal's speech.

They are both modest observers of their own sorrow, rather than declaimers of it; their loss is secondary to the person they mourn, who remains the main object.

The "boss of bosses" in this huge emerging economy is both modest and tactful, certainly not the kind of person to flaunt her success.