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How can you use “modestly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

By the standards of his predecessors, Kangxi lived modestly enough; his concubines numbered no more than 300.
Imagine that you're a modestly ordinary fellow invited to a humble dinner party, that you ask if you can bring a date, and that you show up with Julia Roberts: "Hi, this is Julia.
Reduction of total sample size from 16 to 12 modestly increased the minimum detectable fold-change from 3.0 to 3.8.
In contrast, cPLA 2 S505A is active in vitro and phosphorylation only modestly increases the activity of the enzyme [ 16 17 24 ] . Interestingly, the inhibitory effect of the S505A mutation on AA release is obviated by a high [Ca 2+] i increase.
A modestly warm reception for the last installment in director Whit Stillman's trilogy (following Metropolitan and Barcelona ) about neurotic, hypereducated young WASPs.