Sentence examples for all amiss from inspiring English sources

Present, too, as in "Look Alive Out There," is the anxiety that one is all amiss — secretly broken.

The architect George Ranalli will not take it at all amiss if you think you discern a bit of Frank Lloyd Wright in his design for the $2.9 million Saratoga Community Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, which is being constructed by the New York City Housing Authority.

The doubters had reason for concern, though: while classic sitcoms such as "All in the Family" and "Sanford and Son" were based on British models, more recent efforts to adapt "Absolutely Fabulous," "Coupling," and "The Kumars at No. 42" had all gone amiss.

But when you pick your clothes out of the closet, trying to think like a man (and why would any woman in her right mind ever do such a thing, is beyond me), it all goes amiss.

A little human warmth can never go amiss, after all.

Do you think Serena gave it her all, or was something amiss?

Maybe a touch more pragmatism wouldn't go amiss after all.

When all three are amiss, get ready to topple.

The stock fell 8%, but the market had been telling us that something was amiss all along.

Then "boom": something goes amiss, all the effort goes down the drain, and yet another model meets its arch nemesis the shelf.

From the rhythms and vocabulary, you'd think that there was nothing amiss at all.