"modest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- From a modest background, he was educated locally and did not attend a public school or university.
- He came from modest background, working as a baker in his youth.
- He came from a modest background, and ended up in a home when his parents divorced.
- Tuition is $1,600 a semester and the students typically have modest backgrounds.
- He had a first failed marriage with a rich woman and came from modest background.
- Coming from a modest background he signified the groups majority; the hard working middle class.
- I'd prefer them to grow up in a modest and ordinary background.
- That modest background is a key to his personality, some associates say.
- Even in the 20th century, the merit-based system allowed young people from modest backgrounds to move up into the corridors of power.
- Britain used to have many politicians from modest backgrounds - but not now.
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