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modestly
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Simple sentences
You should dress more modestly.
I wish my daughter would dress more modestly.
He dressed very modestly.
She always dresses very modestly.
I live very modestly.
Movie subtitles
Modestly, I did.
Modestly, thank you.
We will live modestly, and we won't have children right away.
Modestly, I'll spare you the story.
Now, as to money, salary, we're prepared to start modestly.
Did you at least start out modestly?
And I modestly say he succeeded. But to do so, he had to use you.
Modestly, acting is my business.
She should, however, get used to living modestly.
I live modestly but keep to healthy regimen.
They play the key role, but stay modestly hidden.
I love Benedick well, and I could wish he would modestly examine himself, to see how much he is unworthy so good a lady.
Enough for you to live, modestly and respectably.
Modestly speaking, with me. two shots is all it takes!
We'll live modestly, and we won't have children right away.
Your Majesty, ladies and gentlemen, it is with a great deal of pleasure that I modestly accept. this Nobel Prize in Science.
The girls, modestly dressed.
I modestly believe that some of my discoveries would be favorably accepted by the King of France's government.
Modestly put, Minister.
Footrot rises and jogs modestly back.
Modestly successful.
It is our most modestly priced receptacle.
That is our most modestly priced receptacle.
You even seemed modestly interesting at times.
I always start off modestly.
After learning all that, I began modestly in 3rd-class hotels. to get my hands in shape.
But instead of modestly and calmly playing your part as a national hero, instead of giving radio audiences the twaddle they expect, you start sounding off about Christine.
Me I was clothed modestly to enhance you better.
So modestly that you are clothed, you always draw attention.
Just remember our family position and conduct yourself properly and modestly. Oh.
Instead, I'll teach in the country Let's live modestly, shall we?
Excuse Brigadier, but I modestly.
I'll lead them myself and modestly mention the part I played in the affair.
Eyes, modestly lowered. Like her.
He sidestepped it modestly.
She very modestly entertained him for an hour or so and then called in her mother lest her conduct should appear unmaidenly.
News and current affairs
Unfortunately, Germany and the ECB oppose this option, owing to the prospect of a temporary dose of modestly higher inflation in the core relative to the periphery.
Instead, intra-eurozone trade and investment have increased only modestly, and growth potential has actually weakened.
As a result, predictions for the United States - where household deleveraging continues to constrain economic growth - have fallen short only modestly.
All were long overdue prior to the crisis, and they remain in the very early stages, at best, in most countries, while the high-debt countries' fiscal condition has improved only modestly.
Volatility has increased only modestly, while asset prices have held up.
After all, though home-price inflation has slowed modestly in some countries, home prices in general are still rising in economies where macro-prudential restrictions on mortgage lending are being used.
In short, internal adjustment in the eurozone is achievable without serious deflation in the south, provided that productivity growth there accelerates, and that the north does its part by encouraging modestly faster wage gains.
Japan used to grow modestly for two reasons: strong exports to the US and a weak yen.
Some observers regard any suggestion of even modestly elevated inflation as a form of heresy.
Moreover, the government has modestly reduced taxes on wages and slightly scaled down the generosity of some benefits.
Because educational attainment has been advancing only modestly in the US since the turn of the century, we would expect the wage gap to be rising steeply, as it did in the 1980s and 1990s.