Sentence examples for a bit askew from inspiring English sources

A bit askew, off-kilter.

Tie a bit askew but he is a writer.

And it confirmed my suspicions that adults were silly and the world was a bit askew.

Judging by the reviews, that opinion is more or less unanimous; it's the facts that are a bit askew.

But few houses tell them as eloquently and insistently as the white Victorian with the gauzy curtains at the windows, shutters a bit askew and tall hedges out front where Carson McCullers, literary prodigy and tortured invalid, lived for nearly half her 50 years.

He had dark glasses on, a bit askew.

"We got the hinges and buried them in the dirt out back and watered them down like plants for a couple of weeks or so, till they got nice and rusty, then mounted them on the door a little bit askew, so they would squeak," Mr. Ross recalled in an interview for Leonard Maltin's "Great American Broadcast" (Dutton, 1997).

Spatially speaking, something will always be just a little bit askew.

But it surely would have been more exciting had he slowed down a bit and made the slightly askew rhythmic interplay between the two hands clearer.

My rosebushes were looking a bit winter-worn with their canes askew and in need of care.

I showed up to the party a bit late and, as usual, slightly askew from trying to dress myself and all my little people for such a special night out.