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Example sentences for: modesty

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

It was the day after the ceremony and, modesty aside, he was feeling pleased about the award.
The first piece was an unsigned Dec. 18 editorial in the Economist , endorsing the opinion of an essayist from the British Foreign Office who considers irony a necessary virtue in a post-colonial world: It "suggests a certain modesty about oneself, one's values, and one's aspirations.
(Apparently, modesty is still on the style-sheet at the House of Graham--that newspaper was the Post .)
The modestly ordinary fellow, meanwhile--the owner of a struggling travel-book shop in the eponymous London neighborhood--is impersonated by Hugh Grant, who has made a specialty of teasing ordinary modesty into extraordinary adorableness.
Personal History's false modesty begins to evaporate after Phil's suicide in 1963.