There is a modest entrance fee to the center.
The boy was really modest.
She was known for her modesty, always preferring to downplay her achievements and give credit to others.
the modest trend is a scarf
i was modest when i was the new person in my class
The tree was modest and shared the rainwater with the flowers.
To be modest means also to be appropriate for occasion and time.
I would gladly tell you what a wonderful person I am but alas, I am too modest. But I am also modest for saying that.
It was a formal occasion, so she wore a modest dress.
"Johnson was very modest, and behaved bashfully when praised."
It's as if he expects the world to give him a standing ovation for the most modest of triumphs, like graduating high school, and not going to prison.He was not modest enough to cut the crowd off, and they adored him too much to stop, so the ovation continued for an obscenely long time before he finally began to speak.
Coy, pronounced koi, is an adjective that can mean either; (1) affectedly shy and modest. [Sara's new boyfriend seems quite coy.] (2) unwilling to give information. [The police were coy when it came to who the suspects were.]An example of using coy in a sentence would be, 'The girl was being coy with her boyfriend." Coy means to be shy or modest in a flirtatious way.
She is the chatelaine of our house. Or she behaves like a chatelaine although our house is very modest.