Sentence examples for worked modest from inspiring English sources

Vaughn's parents were tenant farmers who worked modest corn and tobacco plots in the Burkesville hills.

The small Morandi paintings of groups of bottles gave Mr. Kulicke the confidence to work small with modest subjects.

It worked with modest success, until it did not: Revis made the Dolphins pay by returning an interception 100 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter.

He was living in a small town and working a modest job.

But it is with Paolo that Mr. Amelio works a modest miracle.

The Italian spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s and 1970s, made by Leone and others, stand as a perfect example of what Europeans can achieve, working on modest budgets.

Yet finding fault with filmmakers for their choices — for working on modest or expansive canvases, engaging directly in class struggle or not at all — reeks of prescriptive art.

It becomes clear that those who work for Modest are kept more under lock and key than the prisoners of Alcatraz.

By the late 1980s, he was a producer in Washington State, working with Modest Mouse among others, before he moved to Norway and reinvented himself after a bumpy boat ride.

Working with modest budgets and typically with only two or three assistants -- if any -- to keep costs down, Harryhausen created innumerable memorable big-screen moments.

In addition, those who are overweight and want to work towards modest weight loss (i.e., 5 10 % of initial body weight) focus on reducing energy intake by 2,000 kJ per day.