modicum

How To Use modicum In A Sentence

• Cold, light, and selfish in the last resort, he had that modicum of prudence, miscalled morality, which keeps a man from inconvenient drunkenness or punishable theft.
• It features a group of con artists with a modicum of honour: they only steal from the greedy and the morally corrupt.
• The reoccupation of all territories previously evacuated by Israel in the West Bank further eroded any modicum of trust left. Alon Ben-Meir: The Arab Peace initiative: Now or Never
• But if you do get a modicum of success, you have to give yourself a smile. The Sun
• All it would take is a bit of gumption and a modicum of courage.
• In ea etiam in hyeme nusquam pluit, sed in 鎠tate: et tam modicum, quod vix potest aliquando puluerem et radices graminum madidare. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
• Is quodam instrumento argenteo consueuit ossa defricare, siue linire, vt ex iis exeat modicum olei, velut parumper sudoris, quod tamen non apparet in colore sui tanquam olei seu Balsami, sed aliquantulum pluris magnitudinis. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
• We live in a world where scientists are increasingly shouted down and whose observations are increasingly dismissed by those with barely a modicum of scientific knowledge; witness how mroe people listen to RUSH FRIGGIN LIMBAUGH about global warming than a qualified planetologist or climatologist. Bones
• A little brevity, a modicum of content, and a lot less rant would be good.
• Again, the consumer must exercise some modicum of brainpower.