He spent his childhood there, in a modest family.

He descends from a modest family in the suburbs of Paris.

Two rats will take care of a modest family.

She was the child of a modest Jewish family.

He was born into a modest family, the youngest of three children.

She grew up in a modest family, working part-time jobs to pay for flying lessons.

This is a modest working-class family, struggling with everything from jobs and schools to themselves.

Having married into a modest family, she worked very hard all her life.

Most came from modest families and studied to be officials.

If you're young, have no connections, and you're from a modest family, there's nothing you can do, your whole life.