How to use in-sentence of “modest”:
+ His music sounds very Russian, and he was a very important influence on other Russian composers such as Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Borodin and César Cui.
+ The composer Maurice Ravel took a piano piece called “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Modest Mussorgsky.
+ The modest Bald Mountain Orofino and Pierce.
+ They undergo a modest change between immature and adult, without going through a pupal stage.
+ It is seen as a rival to the modest publications like “Playboy”.
Example sentences of “modest”:
+ After being instructed to downsize all their belongings they brought with them into a single duffel bag, they are brought to live in a comparatively modest house with limited space, no servants, and limited allowances for groceries and certain comforts that will be predicated on their performance in the program.
+ Lokmanya Tilak was one such leader who was not very modest in his views.
+ Iriondo started coaching quickly after retiring, with modest SD Indautxu in the second division.
+ He was the seventh child from a family of modest means.
+ The engine generated 20 horsepower and propelled the car to modest top speeds of 40–45 miles per hour.
+ He is the least known of the five Russian composers who were nicknamed the “Moguchaya Kuchka”, a group which included Mily Balakirev, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modest Mussorgsky and Alexander Borodin.
+ The large number of neck vertebrae is probably linked to the modest degree of flexibility between adjacent vertebrae.
+ He joined a guitarist in Modest Mouse tour, and he released his first solo album, Ten Readings of a Warning.
+ After being instructed to downsize all their belongings they brought with them into a single duffel bag, they are brought to live in a comparatively modest house with limited space, no servants, and limited allowances for groceries and certain comforts that will be predicated on their performance in the program.
+ Lokmanya Tilak was one such leader who was not very modest in his views.
+ Iriondo started coaching quickly after retiring, with modest SD Indautxu in the second division.
+ An example of a more modest innovation is the evolution of a fourth cusp in the mammalian tooth.
+ According to Sutherland Lyall in 2003, ‘the Royal Society of Arts used to ask you not to use because anybody who pays the modest fee becomes a Fellow’.
+ In the 880s, Alfred made a will giving most of the royal estates to his son Edward, and left his two nephews only modest lands in the eastern part of the realm.
+ He got married when he was 33 years old, on April 6, 1860, to Mariana Cecília de Sousa Meireles, who was considered by biographers a very well educated woman, religious, modest and full of domestic attributes.
+ Walter was known as a kind, modest man, quite unlike some other conductors of the time who behaved like dictators.
More in-sentence examples of “modest”:
+ Their needs are modest in this regard, however, and it only takes a brief word to them once in a while to avert such an unfortunate event.
+ There are two main Geographygeographical regions: a strip where the majority of the people live, and a dense rainforest which gradually rises to the modest peaks of the Tumuc-Humac mountains along the Brazilian frontier.
+ He was a modest man who enjoyed the outdoors and mountain climbing.
+ Polaris B can be seen even with a modest telescope.
+ Many of Alger’s books end with their young heroes getting modest clerical jobs in large firms.
+ Pope Francis and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani met on 6 March 2021 for at most 40 minutes, part of the time alone except for interpreters, in the Shiite cleric’s modest home in the city of Najaf.
+ A hijab is a traditional Islamic norm whereby women are required “to draw their outer garments around them ” and dress in a modest manner.
+ She was born in Berlin, Stubing obtained wide popularity in Italy with a commercial for Peroni BreweryPeroni Beer, and starred in many movies, often of modest value, in several genres of Italian cinema.
+ Despite their modest height, walking and climbing in the Scottish mountains may be made dangerous by their latitude and exposure to Atlantic weather systems.
+ Though only a modest commercial success, the Browne-produced “Warren Zevon edition as Zevon’s most realized work.
+ Windsor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James and Celia Schlain, a Russian Jewish immigrant family of modest means.
+ It is a collection of modest shrines, of which the one dedicated to Skanda-Kumara, is the most important.
+ He is remembered for books and poems he wrote like: “Gulliver’s Travels”, “A Modest Proposal”, “A Journal to Stella”, “Drapier’s Letters”, “The Battle of the Books”, “An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity”, and “A Tale of a Tub”.
+ This gave women wearing skirts a way to ride a horse in a modest with some modern riders.
+ She was a good technician, but Tchaikovsky’s brother Modest described her as pudgy and unattractive.
+ Other Russian composers include Alexander Borodin who wrote “Prince Igor”, and Modest Mussorgsky who wrote “Boris Godunov”.
+ Russian composers include Modest Mussorgsky and Dmitri Shostakovich, and English peopleEnglish and American composers in the 20th century include Michael Tippett, Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland as well as the South American Alberto Ginastera, Juan María Solare and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
+ Tchaikovsky’s brother Modest changed the ballet’s story a little for the revision.
+ The 1969 edition of the “Plan for New York City” book, authored by the City Planning Commission, stated that people of modest means were being driven from the area by development pressures due to the Midtown location.
+ Underwear can be used to keep the wearer modest – for instance, some women wear camisoles and slips under clothes that are see-through.
+ The most important parts of Puritanism were piety, dressing simply, and living a modest life.
+ Full access to all its facilities is by a fairly modest subscription.
+ As a kind of alternative artistic and technical method focusing on the modest equipment, the intense game and the strong history, Dogme 95 gained great international impact and put new Danish film on the international agenda.
+ It serves moderately priced simple meals in a modest setting.
+ Their needs are modest in this regard, however, and it only takes a brief word to them once in a while to avert such an unfortunate event.
+ There are two main Geographygeographical regions: a strip where the majority of the people live, and a dense rainforest which gradually rises to the modest peaks of the Tumuc-Humac mountains along the Brazilian frontier.
+ Hilleman was a forceful man who was at the same time modest in his claims.
+ He also completed or orchestrationre-orchestrated several works by Modest Mussorgsky which had been left unfinished.
+ Over 50000 supporters of the Fluminense saw their team defeated 1 – 0 by the modest team from Caracas.
+ The Super Kings won the match by six wickets as they chased down the target of 193 with two balls to spare with skipper Dhoni scoring an unbeaten 54 from 29 balls.Chennai got the third place as they had the better net run rate of the four teams which finished on 14 points.In the semifinal, the Super Kings scored a modest 142/7 in 20 overs against the defending champions Deccan Chargers.
+ In 2014, Qatar launched a modesty campaign to remind tourists of the modest dress code.
+ Other composers who wrote symphonic poems include Sergei Rachmaninoff, Modest Mussorgsky, Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, Jean Sibelius, Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Pyotr Tchaikovsky and César Franck.
+ During his break from boxing in the 1970s, Rose begun a modest career as a singer.
+ With few exceptions, distances based on direct measurements are available only up to about a thousand parsecs, which is a modest portion of our own Galaxy.
+ He is currently supported by various fellowships and maintains a modest standard of living.
+ The movie opened to mixed reviews and only made a modest amount of money.
+ He died without ever having purchased a motor car, the modest house he lived in Lisbon belonged to the State and is reported as having had two pairs of suits in his wardrobe.
+ After this, his mother had to sell, at a loss, their modest property in order to pay the family’s debts.
+ The new base provided many jobs and spurred modest growth.
+ Tchaikovsky’s brother Modest helped him to prepare the libretto for the opera.
+ In the 1880s, with money he had saved from his modest earnings, he launched a business career by buying a saloon in Haymarket Square downtown.
+ From modest beginnings three decades ago, Yunus has, first and foremost through Grameen Bank, developed micro-credit into an ever more important instrument in the struggle against poverty.
+ However, responses must be proportionate, because if one threatened all-out war as a response for some rather modest misbehaviour, then the threat was simply not believable, and would not work.
+ The effects of recent volcanic eruptions on winters are modest in scale but historically their effects have been significant.
+ The line from Wembley to Harrow was rebuilt immediately after the war and the project was completed from 1956–1962, on a more modest scale than originally planned.
+ The composer Modest Mussorgsky later made an opera from it.
+ This romance-comedy grossed near $108 million in the box office, which was only a modest success, though it remained a favorite for cable and home video.
+ In spite of the restricted views and modest facilities, the West Stand remains a popular vantage point for many fans.