How To Use Modest In A Sentence

Within a few days of its unveiling Achilles was modestly kitted out with a fig leaf.
Public Prosecutor told the court that the offences of threatening and insulting a woman's modesty are bailable, so there is no need to grant anticipatory bail.
I have seen at the resting places carriage loads of women of radiant beauty, and others mounted on a modest ass, such as composes the fortunes of the people of Montmorency. The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
I pulled out a modest peach dress and pulled it on.
Along the tunnel there exist a few modest zones of safety.

The Liberal Democrats are also being coy and modest. Times, Sunday Times
We've seen how things turned out for Scotland's national football manager; matters are organised no differently in the more modest context that is Scottish shinty.
(Applause) Without boasting, without any kind of immodesty, that is how we Cuban revolutionaries understand our internationalist duty. TRICONTINENTAL CONFERENCE
Also, we wanted to determine whether modest practice would modify performance of either group.
The court sought to stretch modest finite resources so far as possible to meet the parties' needs. Times, Sunday Times
Such techniques are not available to middle-class families with modest savings, or to small business owners holding long-term capital gains.
They proposed a modest change to the presentation of the accounts to improve transparency but not disclosing the exact payment to Dr Saunders. Times, Sunday Times
The best makeup is Smile. The best jewelry is Modesty. The best clothing is Confidence.
‘Welcome,’ the empress said to them, her voice holding false modesty.
They will block further tax cuts, except modest breaks for small businesses to ease the burden of a minimum wage increase.
It was accounted an immodest thing for women to dishevel and unloose their hair publicly: The priest unlooseth the hairs of the women suspected of adultery, when she was to be tried by the bitter water, which was done for greater disgrace. From the Talmud and Hebraica
They make a modest portion look generous. Times, Sunday Times
The dress was modest, a medium cut top, three quarter sleeve, tight bodice and a moderate skirt.
It here means the art of moving in coition, which is especially affected, even by modest women, throughout the East and they have many books teaching the genial art. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Encerrei a direcção de turma com chave de ouro como sempre, modéstia à parte, pois o cinismo aliado ao shift+insert fazem maravilhas e durante uns dias nem quero sequer pensar em eduquês ou outro idioma semelhante. Encerrado
Modestly clad women appear as newsreaders on TV, while sexually suggestive Hindi film posters adorn shopfronts about town.
Although one of China's richest men,[sentence dictionary] he dresses inexpensively and lives in a modest Beijing apartment.
Despite a modest revival in city living, Americans are spreading out more than ever into "exurbs" and "boomburbs" miles from anywhere, in big houses in big subdivisions.
The veil symbolizes the idea of modesty and conveys the lesson that however attractive physical appearances may be, the soul and character are paramount.
The analysts reckon consumer demand for laptops and notepads was behind the modest upturn.
North of Larchmont, the homes are more modest turn-of-the-century bungalows with two or three bedrooms.
They had brought a modest decline in the face of extreme boom conditions, but no collapse.
I met wi 'twa dink quines in particular, ane o' them a sonsie, fine, fodgel lass, baith braw and bonnie; the tither was clean-shankit, straught, tight, weelfar'd winch, as blythe's a lintwhite on a flowerie thorn, and as sweet and modest's a new-blawn plumrose in a hazle shaw. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
The introduction of an electronic trading platform last year, enabling retail investors to buy bonds with modest sums, has helped. Times, Sunday Times
I was a modest, good - humoured boy; it is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
It is not false modesty; he just does not know how good he is sometimes.
We expect further modest growth for the rest of the year, although affordability pressures are likely to limit gains for first-time buyers and home movers. Times, Sunday Times
A sober brick building, unpretentious in scale and design, lies modestly low among lawns at the end of a road with playing fields on either side.
I only know that it is the best which I can find, to express one excellence which we see in our Lord, which is like what we call modesty in common human beings. Town and Country Sermons
No coseismic offset in the position of the glacier surface is observed; instead, modest tsunamis associated with the glacial earthquakes implicate glacier calving in the seismogenic process. RealClimate
It had criss-cross straps about half way down the front, but underneath was deep purple material, put there to keep her modesty.
The police clearly took the reports of a similar find in Australia seriously, and last Friday Sydney police launched a dawn raid on a modest two-storey house in the suburbs.
The administration does not need to be declinist to make more modest assessments of power.
Any public activity that would require women to depart from this modest dress in mixed company is expressly forbidden.
One of those was the Modesto Police Department Stanislaus County jail, prebooking probable cause declaration report. CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2003
For that, they can thank modest human efforts to save their habitat, plus months of pouring rain.
I'm on the money train now and am looking forward to a modestly superannuated future.
Most writers harbour a modest ambition for their work to live on after their deaths. Times, Sunday Times
A very modest man he never boasted of his fine abilities, but helped everybody.
One of the executioners then pulled off a kind of furred tippet which covered her bosom; her modesty taking the alarm, made her start back a few steps; she turned pale, and burst into tears. The Pacha of Many Tales
With modest knowledge of football form, his computer model was originally built to help him win an office sweepstake.
As many facets of the automobile industry have recently declined or grown modestly over the past year, the sales of luxury cars have risen 5.5 percent.
Besides, to acquire a holding, ‘the standard of farm competence required was very modest’ (so modest in fact as to necessitate in his opinion that each allottee be placed under an instructor).
New York was left pondering whether to install a more modest moving sidewalk between Times Square and Grand Central Station.
Still, despite these many disappointments, Nice does look like producing some modest steps forward in joint policy and decision-making.
Sahre has catalogued and organized everything about this modest outcropping of homes with an admirable anal retentiveness. 2008 June : Scrubbles.net
He's so modest, though, he'd blush if someone made an off-color remark.
And this spring, the core price indexes, which exclude food and fuel, have posted modest increases.
Its occupation was to speculate on Laetitia Dale's modest enthusiasm for rural pleasures.
We should be happy to buy it for a modest sum.
He remained a retiring, modest and conscientious man who shunned publicity. Times, Sunday Times
Yet, it was clearly established that even a modest weight reduction and improved weight control could bring health benefits, and relieve the burden on hard-pressed health systems.
The surface had a green hue but its appearance proved deceptive, while swing was modest. Times, Sunday Times
But, behind a somewhat stern exterior, Brian was a modest and very likeable man.
After making modest progress on the phone, he follows up with a plaintive letter laying out his case in detail.
Britain's balance of payments improved modestly last month.
They struggled out of the red this year to post modest profits of NZ $6 million.
His Flat form is modest but he has not had fast ground often and it means he has a light weight today. The Sun
Emma asked Mrs. Elton about her musical abilities, and she was both modest and boastful.
They lose a 'sense o' modesty an 'decency, after a while, an' are no 'like women at a' when they grow aulder. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
Through it stood trees set in a paved garden before a country house, or modest palace. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
Which leaves modesty and decency. Times, Sunday Times
Yet with the characteristic caution and modesty of true genius, he continued for nine years longer to reason and experimentalize upon what is now considered one of the simplest, as it is undoubtedly the most important known law of animal nature; and it was not till the year 1628, the fifty-first of his life, that he consented to publish his discovery to the world. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
Father-of-two Ivan, who lived modestly, struck rich 10 years ago when a distant cousin left him ￡8 million.
There's no such thing as false modesty with you. The Sun
The effect of low levels of alloying additions on the soil corrosion of carbon steels is modest.
Although tradition suggests that young Chinese women be modest, no signs of embarrassment or shyness can be read on the waitresses' faces.
What a nice way to show that dressing modestly doesn't have to mean "dowdy" or "drab"! The Value of Clothing in Creating a Mood
This was disturbing news to the South, whose naval capabilities were modest.
The celebrations are expected to be modest and low-key, a reflection of the falling economic fortunes of the territory.
I suspect that the number of people living off eBay is pretty modest, but the number of people making a not-insignificant amount of secondary income is pretty sizeable. digamma Says: Matthew Yglesias » The Architect
He's a very able person, but at the same time incredibly modest and self-effacing.
He held a wire basket with a modest stack of provisions.
The president answered the modest doctor with as much politeness as presence of mind: he put the figure 1 before the number 100, and wrote (1100) "_They are ten times what they were before_. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831
Shee's any good man's better second selfe, the very mirror of true constant modesty, the carefull huswife of frugalitie, and dearest obiect of man's heart's felicitie. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
It had a modest lawn where we could play badminton and croquet. Times, Sunday Times
Offering a wide variety of flexible, unpretentious, gutsy food with modest bills, it's affordable and fun.
Even a modest house can be full of complexity when constructive and spatial variables overlap with sociological factors.
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear. Rumi
The play is a character-driven comedy but also becomes a paean to the joy that achieving even modest goals can bring.
She cast her eyes down modestly while Jack was talking about her.
Their services were modest, and collective written agreements with employers remained exceptional.
He's that kind of man: modest and honest and difficult to write about without seeming obsequious. Times, Sunday Times
Consequently, women are expected to be decorous, modest, and discreet.
We are trying to home in on the talent, focus on the best stories, and we try to be low-key and modest about our role.
She works in the glove department of Saks Fifth Avenue, returning home to a modest apartment, a cat, a sketch pad and her oppressive loneliness.
His modesty and courtesy concealed brilliant intellect; this combination worked wonders. Times, Sunday Times
Legislative leaders, who approved modest increases in college funding in the last few years, could not be reached Friday.
When the day's proceedings end they arrange themselves outside, scanning the street until he is picked up in a silver Mercedes people carrier, a modest vehicle, albeit armour-plated. Roman Abramovich still playing his poker hand inside Court 26 | Richard Williams
They proposed a modest change to the presentation of the accounts to improve transparency but not disclosing the exact payment to Dr Saunders. Times, Sunday Times
A modest vicarage is better than a palace where, he tells an interviewer, ‘there was no such thing as privacy.’
Always self-deprecating and modest, he fought bravely a long struggle against cancer, remaining cheerful and full of amusing unrepeatable anecdotes.
You're going to see the prosecution hammering away at the Modesto Police Department throughout this entire process.
A series of arrows points the way to the modest grave of Andrei Sakharov.
We paid a modest sum and thoroughly enjoyed their fourth performance.
As a result, modest-size firms in many sectors, including shipbuilders, truck companies, the makers of biotech machinery, and paper and printing outfits, began hiring.
Although the cost of living was very much less than it is now, schoolteachers' salaries were modest.
But it felt so strange and unnatural to me that I wished nothing more than to be back in a modest dress.
He is generally regarded in the area as the person to go to if anyone needs help, but he was modest about what he does.
As a final note, I remain mystified by the insistence of those who live in the Chapala area on driving US-plated cars, even those who clearly have adequate resources to pay the modest additional costs. Auto purchase in Mexico
They have to leave her shoulders bare but at least her modesty is in tact.
Against one wall Osborn has hung three modest watercolour heads of a boy.
The Indian woman wears the priceless jewel of modesty with pride.
Some time back in school mugging up on the re-instated Scottish system would perhaps help to instill in them a little overdue modesty as well.
A modest, undemonstrative fellow, Shrubb was visibly moved as the crowd ignored the joyless Glasgow weather and offered him a spine-tingling welcome.
A one-night stay in a modest hotel costs around ￡35.
Let me emphasize, straight away, that he isn't what I would call a friend, but I know him enough to say that he did purposely design himself: single, modest dresser in receding colours, mathematics teacher, sponsor of the chess club, mild-mannered acquaintance to all rather than a friend to any, a person anxious to become invisible. Excerpt: Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
They each drive a Smart car and live in modest apartments. The Sun
They will then be photographed in modest poses.
I brought up the term modesty, and none of the 4 young ladies knew what the word meant! The sleazy sexism that's served up...
Even French women of modest means are much more likely than American women to get treatments in spas or clinics that scrub, polish, buff, massage and cream their skins.
It is also little wonder that most serious scientists tend to be modest about their ability to forecast large-scale climate changes.
And those members of the body which we think to be less honourable, on these we bestow greater honour; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty’.
In fact, they turned out to be even more right than they suspected; they were predicting upticks in illegitimacy that were much more modest than what actually occurred - they expected marriage rates to suffer, not collapse.
Millions of public sector workers face modest pay rises and discontent is likely to grow. Times, Sunday Times
But he's very modest about it, even though he is probably the biggest heartthrob over there.
Although from very modest circumstances, a number of students acquired needle skills and worked samplers that were the equivalent in style and expertise to those worked in the most fashionable schools in Baltimore.
Before all the red ink, profits were a modest 62 million. Times, Sunday Times
The liberal democrats wanted a more modest overspend ... seven million.
While the species has made a modest recovery in the past 50 years, we still do not fully understand its needs, and the changing character of the West itself now further imperils these charismatic animals.
At the far end of the lake, near the base of smouldering Mount Agung, sprawled a tight group of modest boxlike two-story structures enameled a bright aquamarine. Orphan Star
We are not going to outrage your sweet modesties, or call blushes on your maiden cheeks. The Virginians
It was a modest but comfortably furnished room with a divan, low tables and large leather cushions on the floor.
There were shrieks of em-barrassment as the girls struggled to protect their modesty.
Soon she pulled into the driveway of her house, a modest brick ranch type fringing the edges of her voting district.
Why is he so modest about his own contribution to the process?
It was efficient, kind, modest and done with immense good humour. Times, Sunday Times
They live in a modest apartment in a lower middle class suburb of New York.
Once we started selling at busy, sociable markets in the suburbs and the city, where we met customers and other farmers, we not only made a modest profit - we began to have more fun.
The research tends to favour bigger companies because a modest share price improvement can produce huge increases in shareholder value. Times, Sunday Times
The reformers were very divided in their aims, which ranged from modest franchise reform to universal manhood suffrage.
So it could boast wide streets and modest palazzi of Italianate design. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
The RNC has donated very little, Brown is receiving money in modest amounts from the millions and millions of Americans oppossed to the progressive takeover of our country and government and in favor of less government intervention in our lives. Think Progress » Wall Street Investors Lavish Scott Brown’s Campaign With Money, Get Out The Vote Operations
All the latest marine hardware was there - from modest self-assembled rafts, with their homely oil drums and tarpaulins, to sleek, converted pedalos.
We would probably prefer that the opera star or the sporting hero or the genius be suitably humble, modest, and generally endearing.
That's why the shares look like a decent punt with reasonable protection against the downside risk of a modest slip back in the price of oil and no new exploration successes.
From him young voters at least hope for an economic upswing and the retention of their modest liberties.
What seems indisputable is that sporting immortality couldn't be bestowed on a more modest or endearing human being. Times, Sunday Times
The reason for the present event, according to their explanation, is immodest behavior.
Our native British trees are changing leaf colour in a modest, unhurried fashion, achieving no more than soft, undramatic russets, yellows and ochres before the leaves fall away to leave bare branches stroking the sky.
It seemed like an immodest thing to admit, but I thought, ‘Maybe he's right.’
As the ribbon is the auxiliary products, profits have been relatively modest, and the constant peer companies to join, rising raw material prices has led to increasing competition.
Refrigeration equipment and laundry equipment will experience modest gains.
The result must be dreadful where fervour will poetize without the aidful restraints of art and modesty. England's Antiphon
'Anyone else would have done the same thing,' he said with typical modesty.
This family bears: party per pale or and sable, an orle counterchanged and two lozenges counterchanged, with: “i, semper melius eris,” — a motto which, together with the two distaffs taken as supporters, proves the modesty of the burgher families in the days when the Orders held their allotted places in the State; and the naivete of our ancient customs by the pun on A Start in Life
Such techniques are not available to middle-class families with modest savings, or to small business owners holding long-term capital gains.
The rate of power consumption would be quite modest in such a postindustrial, steady-state society.
An overskirt of shimmering gauze bordered at the waist and hem with pearls matched the hems of her long sleeves and modest neckline of her bodice.
the dissertation was entitled, modestly, `Remarks about a play by Shakespeare'
Called "agha mama," or "father uncle," by his guards, Karzai now lives in a relatively modest house with a marble facade on a barricaded street manned by police in downtown Kandahar City. Ahmed Wali Karzai, an ally and obstacle to the U.S. military in Afghanistan
It will appear from the above statement that this contains an unjust in - sinuation, which the reporter ought modestly to have forborn, especially as he had, while in this city, a conve - nient opportunity for obtaming correct information by applying to any member of the committee of missions. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
The deal included modest increases in pension benefits, a transparent attempt to win support from older and higher-seniority longshoremen at the expense of the work force as a whole.
A one-night stay in a modest hotel costs around ￡35.
In 1363, for example, Bindo Benini donated to the monastery a relatively modest sum of 120 florins in order to help defray construction and decoration costs of a burial chapel in the chapterhouse.
The modest, by contrast, realise that, in the sum of history and geography, they're but a tiny, passing crater, and the stoics know that human pain has to be suffered and can't just be railed against.
They had owned a modest dry cleaning establishment in the neighbourhood. The Times Literary Supplement
The growth outlook is positive on both sides of the Atlantic and bond yields should continue to rise modestly. Times, Sunday Times
Only one facility, the White Sands Missile Testing Range in New Mexico, experienced a modest decline in civilian payroll costs.
The result reflects a modest rightward shift in opinion.
Bar was likewise always modest and self – depreciatory — in his way. Little Dorrit
Most of it is owned by people of modest wealth who have kept it in the family for generations. Times, Sunday Times
Finance Minister Milen Velchev believes that the grey economy has receded in Bulgaria in recent years, albeit by a modest degree.
But this would make the amount raised relatively modest. Times, Sunday Times
A modest blob of piping hot swede holds the heat for ages and is brilliant for making sure the plate and the meat stay warm to the table.
Furthermore, many clerics in the eighteenth century held modest livings though they too occupied a position of privilege in society.
Butter "(for my lady, like her Majesty the Queen, was somewhat given to swearing, though more modest oaths, as should become a subject) --" I 'fecks, Butter, "saith she," 'tis a most lustick plot. A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales
His Flat form is modest but he has not had fast ground often and it means he has a light weight today. The Sun
The families did not always look favorably upon their daughter’s activities in a mixed organization that was secular from the outset, in which training exercises were held on the Sabbath and holidays, and basic religious strictures such as kashrut and modesty of dress were not observed (the girls wore trousers or shorts). Haganah.
Similarly it may be said — not as an ingenious speculation, but as a stedfast and absolute fact — that human calculation cannot limit the influence of one atom of wholesome knowledge patiently acquired, modestly possessed, and faithfully used. Speeches: Literary and Social
And, no matter how modestly it begins, the effort must be sustainable over the long term.
The modesty of the Arab woman is the linchpin of the whole political system.
With a low surgical risk, carotid endarterectomy provides modest benefit in symptomatic patients with carotid artery stenosis of 50 to 69 percent.
I wish to acquaint your love in Christ that the very zealous brethren who have been commissioned by your reverence to act for you in this good work have won praise for all the clergy by the amiability of their manners; for by their individual modesty and conciliatoriness they have shewn the sound condition of all. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
No hope she'd inherit, but perhaps they'd want to dower her with a modest 100,000 acres out around Kynuna or Winton. THE THORN BIRDS
Before you actually begin decorating your home, I would recommend looking through home design magazines and browsing through some wonderful sites; starting with freshome. com if I can be so modest. Living Room Decorating Ideas
Despite the powerful scale of his buildings, he was modest about the role of the architect.
I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able to help. Maya Angelou
The price is very modest.
I had a common donkey pack-saddle-a barde, as they call it - fitted upon Modestine; and once more loaded her with my effects. Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes
She became conductor soon after, but is modest about her role in the band.
Tapas bars are proliferating because they serve up a wide variety of flexible, unpretentious, gutsy food and modest bills.
Nuanced verdure, brick reds and tempered whites, play against tints of calcined blues and gray-greens, broadcast beyond the paintings' modest confines.
If she had still been a goody-goody she would have been so modest and fainted at the idea.
This modest group size allows our teachers to respond to the needs of each student.
Our requirements seem fairly modest.
Despite its modest size and the irregular temporal, spatial, and ethnic distribution of the cases, the sample represents more than 70% of spousal murders that occurred in the viceroyalty at the time.
The speech sounded modest and sincere. Times, Sunday Times
Austin agreed and I began work on my first, very modest contribution to deep-sea research.
As a young adult, her mammaries were modest in scale, but at around the age of 22, she had them enhanced for the first time, either with silicone or silicone bags filled with saline solution.
Lucy is a modestly successful artist encumbered with a drunken, hypochondriac father and an uncaring American boyfriend.
The more a man knows, the more he is inclined to be modest.
With a warming Northern lilt and cheekily lit eyes, he talks modestly of the talents that have drawn him from his working class beginnings.
Whatever the claim, I think even the most modest one, that some of the people he has worked with in business have never compared themselves to the less fortunate is very likely false. Envy and Resentment, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The historical lesson of activist fiscal policy is this: be modest about what we know and what we can achieve.

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