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    modesty example sentences

    modesty


    1. Santosha is to practice humility, modesty and finding contentment with what you have and who you are


    2. designed for hot, sultry Greek nights, and barely covered her modesty


    3. We are using the large room behind the stage area for changing … men on the left and women on the right with a row of mobile clothing racks down the middle, where we each have our personal designated areas to hang our costumes, giving some sort of modesty division, though to be honest, who the hell wants to gawp? As the play takes place in the present day, the clothes are not really costumes anyway, but, all the same, my character has certain things she has to wear – some my own and some provided by wardrobe


    4. It was considered a matter of modesty, dignity,


    5. Straw: It symbolizes success and wealth, followed by the jealousy of people around you; a straw hat shows modesty


    6. The skirt that she was wearing was a last throw of a summer wardrobe designed for hot, sultry Greek nights, and barely covered her modesty


    7. The poor soldier sat on the bunk in his cell, alone and without shoe laces in his shoes or a belt to secure his modesty


    8. Modesty vs Curiosity, I shoved the shirt aside and


    9. shoe laces in his shoes or a belt to secure his modesty


    10. "Modesty", says Bex, smiling up at her father

    11. The other man shook his head at Alistair’s modesty


    12. modesty, at any rate


    13. “Compelling enough! I have dedicated myself to those disciplines since that first hearing; and I can say, in proper modesty, with some genuine success


    14. Her modesty dictated the rule


    15. Gogo spoke with no false modesty, nor was she boasting of her prowess


    16. days and confess with modesty in Sundays”


    17. See that you comport yourself with all due modesty


    18. She’d just be very careful to act with thorough modesty


    19. A whisper of a sigh, modesty


    20. ” He did not appear to be holding back through any overdose of modesty

    21. The admiration of this whole sect for their master, who was himself a man of the greatest modesty and simplicity, is not inferior to that of any of the ancient


    22. Every part of their education tends evidently to some useful purpose ; either to improve the natural attractions of their person, or to form their mind to reserve, to modesty, to chastity, and to economy ; to render them both likely to became the mistresses of a family, and to behave properly when they have become such


    23. “I’d just like to say, despite his own modesty, we are very proud of Raven and the progress he has made


    24. Celine had chosen a simple summer dress of cornflower blue, cut on the cross in cotton chiffon and lined for modesty


    25. What can one do, though? Such is life… but what a pleasant lesson of simplicity and modesty did I receive from those two personalities of world fame!


    26. the fabric she had held against her waist, clinging to pointless modesty, for what He wanted, He would have


    27. ” He tried for modesty, but he knew the notes were good


    28. He asked with no reservations or false modesty


    29. Later in Saul’s life, he completely looses his modesty and now only thinks of himself


    30. gratefully accepted the chance for modesty, and for warmth, as she was absolutely

    31. I felt completely humiliated, but stopped when modesty demanded it


    32. The woman smiled at Sachie’s modesty


    33. She told me she’d bring her sister Jenna, and a close friend of hers, obviously trying not to burden me, I rolled my eyes; I can see where Lucky gets her modesty


    34. That in its kingdom always reigns, but in modesty conveys obedience


    35. apart than was duly consonant with the strictest dictates of modesty, and with a


    36. Be as exact as you can, neither exaggerating your claim nor diminishing it out of modesty


    37. “Well, first, it wasn't by choice,” Moshe replied, somewhat tartly, then, feigning modesty, “but


    38. There was a modesty about


    39. the world's helm? His natural modesty made him deny he had the ability to turn the


    40. That would be me," he added with appropriate modesty

    41. Modesty is a good thing, but your name has to be seen or it shouldn’t be


    42. monitors, and her modesty compromised beyond repair, she grabbed


    43. Making use of my histrionic skills, my words began to go out with a tone of modesty that was improper on me, without many inflections, given a touch of extreme humility to the monotonous character of my voice


    44. Still has no name, but the problem, little sister, is that the only thing it does is eat and defecate all over the garden; and it defecates with treachery, without modesty or commiseration; regardless of whether we are looking at it or not


    45. I turned red by modesty and said


    46. With the help of Beatrice I experienced the pleasures of credit card purchases and had to be consistent with her appreciation that one of the most satisfying earthly pleasures is precisely the use of credit; of course with modesty and restraint


    47. or modesty, and can also indicate


    48. those who walk on the earth in modesty, and


    49. In what appeared to be amused delight they gazed down at hairless pubes and a very respectable erection in Alger’s case—a flowering vulva in Begum’s, before throwing convention and modesty to the winds


    50. Charming modesty combined with the fact that he was obviously completely unaware of how breathtakingly sexy he looked, meant that no one raised the slightest objection














































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    Synonyms for "modesty"

    modesty reserve modestness control restraint temperance abstinence humility constraint

    "modesty" definitions

    freedom from vanity or conceit


    formality and propriety of manner