"modest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She couldn't suppress a modest smile, knowing how different her work was from what people surmised.
- The storyteller waited it out with a modest smile.
- She looked up at her with her modest rueful smile.
- But the next afternoon, he allowed himself a modest smile in announcing that the crisis had been defused.
- All three men turned and stared at me, I gave them a modest little smile.
- "Brian," he said later with a modest smile, "will go down as the guy who scored the last goal that I ever set up."
- "Too bad you can't remember it," I concluded with a modest smile.
- "Certainly not," the Duke said with a modest smile as he sat between the two of them.
- David thought that the moment might be right for a modest smile and nod, but then realized that no one was looking at him.
- The old professor smiled a modest smile which faded into a frown.
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