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Sentence count:219+20Posted:2016-07-19Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: bashfulhumbleplainquietshysimpleunpretentiousAntonym: arrogantimmodestSimilar words: modemodelmoderateclandestinedestructionmodifycodeerodeMeaning: ['mɑdɪst /'mɒ-]  adj. 1. marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself 2. not large but sufficient in size or amount 3. free from pomp or affectation 4. not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance 5. low or inferior in station or quality 6. humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness 7. limited in size or scope 8. free from ostentation or pretension. 
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91. Our industry can create new markets and opportunities with a modest investment in language initiatives.
92. You can take modest calcium supplements if your urine calcium levels are not elevated.
93. Always self-deprecating and modest, he fought bravely a long struggle against cancer, remaining cheerful and full of amusing unrepeatable anecdotes.
94. One gets on better in life if one is not over modestAnne Frank 
95. While others had comparatively modest ambitions, her heart was set on becoming a star.
96. I was even earning enough to support myself in modest comfort. Sentencedict.com
97. A modest journal article might have produced for the author a significant learning experience.
98. Grant and co-star Julianne Moore provide only modest charm as the couple expecting their first baby.
99. One fine day, this innocent tigress is suddenly tamed by a modest teacher who teaches her to read.
100. Till then, Antonescu earns a modest dollar from his bootleg memory bullets.
101. Stay ahead by deploying modest quantities of state-of-the-art aircraft, to dogfight over Arizona.
102. Even these modest broadcasts show only the best of the bunch.
103. Bond prices were little changed in modest trading and the dollar was mixed in a muted session.
104. He was a modest and unassuming man who never gave the impression that he knew all the answers.
105. Even the highest-ranking government bureaucrats generally live in modest government-owned housing.
106. Belle-Ile, however, seems to belong to a past era of modest and amateur tourism.
107. Yet the aid package passed in an instinctively isolationist Congress with only a modest handful of dissenters.
108. The latest addition to the modest skyline ... the ecumenical church.
109. The country had been emancipated from thirteen years of middle-level Conservative rule of reasonable efficiency, modest dynamism but small-power idealism.
110. The liberal democrats wanted a more modest overspend ... seven million.
111. Austin agreed and I began work on my first, very modest contribution to deep-sea research.
112. My flaky judgments were modest by comparison-but numerous enough to keep me hopeful of regaining the dunce cap this year.
113. But the dividend income is relatively modest, and coming from abroad they are not a tax-efficient source of income.
114. With many excises however, modest price increases have little or 00 effect on sales.
115. Born in Swansea of modest entrepreneurial stock, he had a happy childhood, and he recreates its pleasures well.
116. Modest, kind or optimistic people often smile more than snobbish, unkind or pessimistic people. Dr T.P.Chia 
117. This will considerably help cash Mow problems for new haulage firms and hauliers still operating at a modest turnover.
118. A powerful coalition of committed advocates will, in this way, emerge out of those modest coalitions that exist today.
119. Such techniques are not available to middle-class families with modest savings, or to small business owners holding long-term capital gains.
120. She would still have a spare bedroom, quite enough for the modest entertaining she proposed to do in her widowed state.
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