Amiss Sentence Examples

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  • He sensed much more amiss than Gabriel would ever admit.

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  • A parrot on the shoulder never goes amiss.

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  • Carmen shrugged off an uncomfortable feeling that something was amiss.

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  • Alex didn't look at Carmen, which was her first inkling that something was amiss.

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  • Here you can let the creators of the site know if anything seems amiss regarding plotlines, character profiles, etc. If you'd like to help create a profile on a new character, post this on the feedback area as well.

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  • Napping atop the castle, Yoshi realizes something is amiss.

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  • His inquisitive gaze met hers, likely sensing something amiss.

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  • There may be nothing amiss, but if there's nothing to hide, your visit shouldn't present too much of a problem.

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  • Though a range of basic, everyday bras is essential, a more daring style (or two) doesn't go amiss.

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  • The feds ignored the newcomers after a few looks, content to stroll and chat as if nothing were amiss anywhere.

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  • A few concrete, real-world examples of tasks you might want to pursue would not have gone amiss.

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  • Buffeted by the slipstream, there is something amiss.

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  • Specialists are on the lookout for any suspicious activity on your account and will notify you immediately if something looks amiss.

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  • A few plants of it on a bank or rough place are not amiss.

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  • As no blood is passing into the skin, the parts look like tallow, and thus attract the attention of the companions of the frost-bitten man, who perhaps has no thought of there being anything amiss.

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  • To a casual passerby, glancing down from one of the slick new bridges on the Island Highway, nothing seems amiss.

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  • You'll have a second ultrasound to check the baby's development (and gender if you're interested), and some women have amniocentesis performed if there is any reason to believe that something may be amiss with the developing fetus.

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  • I am sorry to sound so abrupt in this email; but clearly, something is seriously amiss at the Chartwell Gift Shop.

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  • It provides a timeline of expected prenatal appointments and pregnancy symptoms and allows your health care provider to note if something is amiss.

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  • As classic as a nurse or French maid, a really lovely bra and panty set with a garter belt, stockings, heels and perhaps a transparent robe or feather boa will never go amiss.

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  • To what extent or in how many cases what is called illness is due to moral springs having been used amiss, whether by being over-used, or by not being used sufficiently, we hardly at all know, and we too little inquire.

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  • To prevent being blamed by him or others for any disingenuity in not acknowledging my oversights or slips in the first edition, I believe it will not be amiss to print next after the old Praefatio ad Lectorem, the following account of this new Edition.

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  • Additional evidence that something was amiss comes from Meinertzhagen's usually meticulous diaries.

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  • Women who are in tune with their bodies are more likely to seek medical attention when something seems amiss.

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  • If Senor Medina had determined on his own that there was something amiss between his son and his wife, it would have to have been because Alex was treating her so well.

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  • Toucans in confinement feed mainly on fruit, but little seems amiss to them, and they swallow grubs, reptiles and small birds with avidity.

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  • Finally, he reproaches Chretien with having told the story amiss, whereas Kiot, the Provençal, whose version Wolfram was following, had told it aright from beginning to end.

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  • But inasmuch as there are many persons, including most makers of school editions, who prudently and modestly desire a better road to truth than their own investigations can discover and think thus to find it, it will not be amiss to observe on the one hand that the concurrence of a succession of editors in a reading is no proof and often no presumption either that their agreement is independent or that their reading is right; and on the other that, though independence may generally be granted to coinciding emendations of different scholars, yet from the general constitution of the human mind it is likely that not a few of these will be coincidences in error rather than in truth.

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  • Perhaps an explanation of the method that was in use when I took my examinations will not be amiss here.

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  • Thirdly, the induction is amiss which infers the principles of sciences by simple enumeration, and does not, as it ought, employ exclusions and solutions (or separations) of nature.

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  • In distinguishing philosophy from the sciences, it may not be amiss at the outset to guard against the possible misunderstanding that philosophy is concerned with a subject-matter different from, and in some obscure way transcending, the subject-matter of the sciences.

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  • Some of the peasants said that these new arrivals were Russians and might take it amiss that the mistress was being detained.

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  • Finally, he reproaches Chretien with having told the story amiss, whereas Kiot, the Provençal, whose version Wolfram was following, had told it aright from beginning to end.

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  • For as Kepler knew the orb to be not circular but oval, and guessed it to be elliptical, so Mr Hooke, without knowing what I have found out since his letters to me, can know no more, but that the proportion was duplicate quam proxime at great distances from the centre, and only guessed it to be so accurately, and guessed amiss in extending that proportion down to the very centre, whereas Kepler guessed right at the ellipsis.

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