Modest used in a sentence

Modest in a sentence as an adjective

For one he seemed a genuinely nice and modest human being.

Tinkering with new ideas on some modest amount of savings and "odd jobs" or consulting is no longer possible.

Yet no other man was more modest in the possession of the power that is knowledge, more sure that power without wisdom is deadly.

The modest amount paid is well worth it just to be alerted to the main issues and pitfalls involved in setting up an entity.

And that's quite apart from the possibility that time travelers would make some modest effort to avoid asking their neighbors about future events.

Anyone sharing creative work is making a contribution, however modest.> Ask questions out of curiosity.

You should be designing your studio to accommodate modest returns, while accounting for inevitable flops.

I'd prefer not to get into all the details or name names, but I had published some papers in a specialized hot domain that was highly mathematical, and owned some modest but important IP.

Within a short time, the executive management of our client used that write-up to meet face-to-face with their counterpart executives on the other side and the case quickly settled for a very modest money payment.

People would tell me what a great job I did and praise the amount of time it must have taken, and while I'd smile nervously and modestly reject their attribution, I'd often be left silently thinking, "I don't think this was as difficult or took as long as you think it did.

His theme is a clarion call to shape your life, and the way you make a living, around things you love to do and to avoid dying a slow death by simply doing a job that makes money - the point being that it makes no sense to pursue modest comforts at the cost of spending your life doing soul-deadening things you don't like doing just because they earn you a livelihood.