modestly

How To Use modestly In A Sentence

• Within a few days of its unveiling Achilles was modestly kitted out with a fig leaf.
• Modestly clad women appear as newsreaders on TV, while sexually suggestive Hindi film posters adorn shopfronts about town.
• 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'm on the money train now and am looking forward to a modestly superannuated future.
• 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.
• Britain's balance of payments improved modestly last month.
• Father-of-two Ivan, who lived modestly, struck rich 10 years ago when a distant cousin left him ￡8 million.
• 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
• She cast her eyes down modestly while Jack was talking about her.
• the dissertation was entitled, modestly, `Remarks about a play by Shakespeare'