1.   A diabetic who suffers from failing eyesight and poor hearing, he seldom leaves Cairo and lives in a modest apartment with his wife and two daughters.

2.   A multinational mob of reporters, who have turned his modest apartment complex into a media encampment, watched the whole scene.

3.   Alexie lives in a modest apartment in Seattle with his wife, Diane, a Hidatsa Indian who is expecting their first child next year.

4.   Even those of us with extremely modest apartments could invite over a string quartet and make the music comfortable.

5.   Having squandered most of his royal fortune, he spent the final years of his life in a modest Paris apartment.

6.   He advertised his modest apartment near the University of Missouri as the local headquarters for the Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights.

7.   He lived in a modest unfurnished apartment and slept on a mattress on the floor.

8.   He sends e-mail to Colombian officials and rebel chieftains and receives politicians in the living room of his modest San Jose apartment.

9.   He shares a modest apartment with his widowed mother, an economist.

10.   He showed up around his very modest apartment and then we got down to it.