Sentence examples for amiss things from inspiring English sources

But it wasn't until he tried to leave the nightclub that January night that Mr. Tobin learned how amiss things were.

When workers entered Room 20, nothing was immediately amiss: Things were not in disarray, and the only noise seemed to come from the water that had been left running.

A few more goals would not go amiss but things take time.

Writer was impelled in this direction by a feeling that had been growing on writer over the past several summers that there were plenty of other things amiss in baseball--things he could see plainly, out there on the field.

"I think they realize, as a lot of us have for a long time, that there are things amiss: lack of communication, lack of coordination and, probably, a lot of petty jealousy".

I doubt we would find such a gap now between news and expectations; hard to imagine that Millennials and Gen Y would find anything amiss about all things turning purple even if Prince is a bit old for them.

The shade of the wristbands is possibly the only thing amiss on this debut solo outing in London.

In fact, I think the only thing amiss here is Mr Scalia's weirdly literalist approach to the word "bear"; the first amendment's reference to "freedom of speech and of the press", for example, is generally held to apply to non-verbal communications as well.

There's only one thing amiss: the clearly GM-sourced audio head unit with its clumsy oversized buttons (you'll find the exact same face on every radio in GM cars, from the Suburban to the Alero).

But things are amiss inside Team Kenya.

It's not just traditionalists like Mr. Hoare who say that things are amiss.