"modest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

modest adjetivo

modest + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 257

modest success • modest increase • modest mean • modest amount • modest home • modest gain • modest house • modest man • ...

verbo + modest

Kolokacji: 3

look modest • sound modest • consider modest

Grup znaczeniowych: 1

(1) look, sound, consider

Kolokacji: 3

1. look modest = wyglądaj skromny look modest

2. sound modest = dźwięk skromny sound modest

To us it sounds extremely modest, as policing innovations go.
I know it sounds modest,' he concedes, 'but what we need is to do one thing well.
"I've had a few lessons already," Egwene said, trying to sound modest.
"It takes a good deal to surprise me," she said, making no attempt to sound modest.
"It's not that my food is so good," he says, trying in vain to sound modest.
Indeed, the coach sounds almost modest, as if he's the new kid on the block, and not Lucas.
The next day the Dow industrials fell 91 points, a record at the time, though it sounds modest now, less than three weeks later.
But listening to you they sound quite modest compared to proposals that are around elsewhere, and I mean from other candidates.
How to sound modest when you speak the tennis truth?
The bill's provisions may sound modest and technical, but they could nevertheless make a big difference in the lives of millions.

3. consider modest = uważaj za skromny consider modest

adverbio + modest

Kolokacji: 22

relatively modest • most modest • fairly modest • comparatively modest • extremely modest • ...

modest + preposición

Kolokacji: 8

modest in • modest about • modest by • modest to • modest with • ...

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