"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
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 • ...
1. modest in = skromny w modest in
  • The wine list is modest in size, price and variety.
  • He was far more modest than in my youthful picture of him.
  • The cost of the program has been modest, $20 million in the last two years.
  • However, the help that he received was modest in numbers.
  • Perhaps we might even learn to be a little more modest in our claims this time round.
  • Trying to be modest in a hospital gown would've been just too much.
  • I have yet to learn to be more modest in my demands.
  • "My goal at the beginning was quite modest in terms of the restaurant I wanted," he said.
  • The results have been much more modest, especially in the fields of human rights, democracy and the environment.
  • Although they are modest in size, these works have an infectious energy.
2. modest about = skromny około modest about
3. modest by = skromny przez modest by

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