Sentence examples for amiss as from inspiring English sources

Shorter must have felt that something was amiss as well.

"I can be a lot more careful about heating just one or two rooms, and the odd hot water bottle wouldn't go amiss as well.

If you are serving it with ham, however, a little grating of zest on top to serve wouldn't go amiss, as much for the colour as anything else.

But on this particular day, Feb. 1, Mr. Khan realized that something was amiss as soon as he stepped inside the beige, boxy two-story building on 161st Street near Hillside Avenue.

All we can say for sure is that the differences were clearly apparent six years after the conflict, although there were less clear suggestions that 'something' was amiss as early as 15 months post-conflict.

None wondered what was amiss "as the sky grew ever more lighter".

Graham Dorrans and Steven Pienaar both hit the woodwork in a tense finale as chances went amiss at both ends.

Something feels missing and amiss, even as Ida muses on missing.

It was Amiss who, as chief executive of Warwickshire in 2002, put the pen in the hand of Jonathan Trott and got the contract signed.

The second scenario was that the spacecraft sensed something amiss and, as it is programmed to do, powered down the main computer and switched operations to the backup computer.

But industry analysts and those who study marketing and consumer behavior say the stores have an incentive to pretend nothing is amiss, even as they post eye-popping sale signs.