MODEST in a Sentence

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The giant redwoods and high cliffs dwarf the elegant Ahwahnee Hotel, making it appear a modest lodge rather than an imposing hostelry.

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 Meanings and Examples of MODEST
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modest
 a.  humble; less ambitious; moderate
Classic Sentence: (118 in 8 pages)
1  Melanie, however, did not seem to mind the smells, the wounds or the nakedness, which Scarlett thought strange in one who was the most timorous and modest of women.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  "Thank God, I'm not that modest," thought Scarlett, feeling rather than seeing Melanie's agony of embarrassment, as she wrapped the ragged cloth about the shattered face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  She thought of the modest hoops of the war years and she felt a little embarrassed at these new skirts which undeniably outlined her abdomen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
4  When she did not receive calls from old friends, except Melanie and Pitty and Uncle Henry and Ashley, and did not get cards to their modest entertainments, she was genuinely puzzled and hurt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
5  A born artilleryman, a brave soldier and an uncomplaining gentleman, a modest man who wouldn't even take a commission when it was offered him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
6  No modest, matronly dove grays and lilacs tonight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
7  She only knew that as she had once desired to keep her mother thinking her modest, kind, pure of heart, so she now passionately desired to keep Melanie's high opinion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
8  Its modest "effects," compact of enamel paint and ingenuity, spoke to him in the language just then sweetest to his ear.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
9  It was as the immortalizer of such occasions that little Dabham, wedged in modest watchfulness between two brilliant neighbours, suddenly became the centre of Selden's scrutiny.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
10  In the Bon Ton Store she found Guy Pollock tentatively buying a modest gray scarf.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  We used to dance modest, and we had just as much fun as all these young folks do now with their terrible Turkey Trots and hugging and all.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  A modest voile blouse with an edging of lace at the neck.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  She could, she asserted, endure a shabby but modest town; the town shabby and egomaniac she could not endure.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
14  The husband, in Chicago, was working in a furniture factory for modest wages, and when he met his family at the station he was rather crushed by the size of it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
15  Yes, 'm,' Fuchs admitted with modest pride.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  He is modest in his behavior.
2  The more a man knows, the more he is inclined to be modest.
3  The result reflects a modest rightward shift in opinion.
4  The research was carried out on a modest scale.
5  This modest group size allows our teachers to respond to the needs of each student.
6  He was always modest about his role in the Everest expedition.
7  Be modest in learning , for complacency is the enemy of study.
8  Asian women are more modest and shy, yet they tend to have an inner force.
9  It was a very modest affair, a gathering of Caribbean musicians in an area of London, where many West Indian immigrants had settled in the 1950s.
10  The giant redwoods and high cliffs dwarf the elegant Ahwahnee Hotel, making it appear a modest lodge rather than an imposing hostelry.
11  Its producer plans to shoot the project on a very modest budget, well below the tens, or even hundreds of millions, spent on a typical Hollywood blockbuster in the United States.
12  She was demure and reserved, a nice modest girl whom any young man would be proud to take home to his mother.
13  After living in a cramped studio apartment for years, Alicia thought the modest one bedroom looked downright palatial.
14  Blushing at all the praise heaped upon him by the speakers, the modest hero said, "I don't deserve any panegyric.".
15  Social life in my extended family, like that of most people of modest means who grew up in the country, revolved around meals, conversation, and storytelling.