Sentence examples for answered something to from inspiring English sources

One day, though, the company members asked themselves, "What would we never do?" As Collins recalls it, "Steve Bodow, half-joking, answered something to the effect of 'Well, the thing we'd never do is repeat ourselves deliberately, so let's do that.' The pressure to reinvent ourselves would be even greater, given a similar task".

Twenty-two of the 306 (7.2 percent) students answered something similar to this.

Look at what they are doing!" I muttered an answer, something to the effect that someone had killed an American soldier, and I laced my words with as much profanity as I could muster.

I asked the waiter what gave the Lichee Red its color, but as with other questions I asked here, I wasn't given much of an answer ("something to do with its processing").

You should expect your child to answer something like: "I stop, look both ways to check the cars are actually stopping before I cross and only when I am sure they've stopped do I cross".

"It seemed to answer something personal for them".

"If she is reluctant to answer, something is not right.

It's nonsense to answer something that is pure speculation".

Wada, too, has questions to answer, something the IOC president, Thomas Bach, brought up in an IOC press conference on Sunday.

I -- there's an old high school debating trick, which is to answer something and then attack your opponent at the end.

In one recent segment, he and his guests stopped assessing the possible electoral effects of a reignited national debate about abortion and tried to answer something more fundamental: is a fetus a person?