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Example sentences for: modicum

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

But given the outrage such excesses generate, advocates would be better off cutting the rich loose and gaining a modicum of redistributive equity for their side of the argument.
"They simply have to keep trying, and Mr. Blair will have lost an important modicum of credibility."
Freakwater, on the other hand, often leaves you thinking that it would be great if it just sang its harmonies with a modicum of timing.
And censure would let Democrats distance themselves from the tawdriness of the President's misdeeds while still preserving the requisite modicum of party loyalty.
I found this humility, this forced gracelessness--when of course some modicum of suavity would have come so easily to him--breathtakingly charming.