Examples of using "Modesto" in a sentence and their english translations:
- Tom is humble.
- Tom is modest.
Be more modest.
Try to be a bit more modest.
You're modest.
He is a very modest man.
She smiled and accepted my little present.
You're too modest.
Don't you think you're modest?
As far as I know, Mr. Smith was a modest man.
I ate a modest breakfast of toast, coffee, and one egg.
Having a poor goal is better than lacking a goal.
Being an honest and discreet man, he never sought recognition for his contributions.
On this day in 1887 appeared in Warsaw a booklet by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof about the "International Language". Its size was modest, its motto ambitious: "For a language to be international, it is not enough simply to declare it so." The name of the author was given as "Dr. Esperanto".
I must confess that my modest and worthless work here has included the translation (usually from English to Portuguese and Esperanto) of model sentences about Tom and Mary or about Sami and Layla. But I believe that it is worthwhile to also have sentences of different kinds added to Tatoeba's millionfold and exemplary corpus, even if they are less modern or less current.