"modest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He has chosen instead to live with his wife and child in a modest rented villa.
- The remains of a modest Roman villa were discovered here in 1839 during the construction of the Great Western Railway.
- On that southeast portion of his father-in-law's property, Peter Schermerhorn, soon after his marriage, had first inhabited the modest villa overlooking the river at the foot of today's 67th Street.
- Subsequent designs showed a modest villa with a square tower (Dollmann 1884) and a small Gothic castle (Schultze 1884, Hofmann 1886).
- His home and office, where he often worked 18-hour days, consisted of two modest villas that faced each other in a residential neighborhood in Damascus.
- "This is not a soap opera, it's a sweeping epic," said Lia over afternoon tea at the couple's modest villa in central Bucharest.
- On it stood a modest early-nineteenth-century villa, to whose sand-yellow stucco clung, half concealed by red-blowing hawthorn, the enamel sign of the ballet school.
- Descriptions of the villa range from a castle with an 18-hole golf course to a relatively modest seaside villas.
- At first it was a modest villa in Firle, then it was Asheham, a small Regency house east of Lewes.
- At last he reached a narrow way bordered by the clay or brick walls of modest villas pierced by thatched-roof gates: the houses of middle-class samurai.
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