Sentence examples for be somewhat formal from inspiring English sources
adverb
To a limited extent or degree.
- The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.
It was difficult because "relationships with businessmen would tend to be somewhat formal and guarded" and because it was "doubtful" if a woman could stand the "fairly severe strains".
"It was somewhat formal, but engaged.
The living room was somewhat formal, and she wanted to keep it neat.
Trump's father was somewhat formal and strict, a quiet conservative and friend and donor to Barry Goldwater's doomed 1964 campaign for president.
The concepts of offer and acceptance are somewhat formal; they assume that the negotiations pass through clearly distinguishable phases, which is often not the case.
"I believe a wedge adds the height wanted in a shoe, but is somewhat less formal than a high-heel stiletto," says Charlotte Dellal, the designer behind the shoe brand Charlotte Olympia.
For starters, they jettisoned the business's sartorial drabness: the women dressed in black, with long red and gold scarves, and the men — except for Mr. Eddins, who was somewhat more formal — were jacketless and tieless, and wore pastel shirts (in salmon, lilac, purple or cinnamon).
The gaggle tends to be somewhat more relaxed and somewhat less about theater than the formal briefing, and it is roughly half as long.
We show that formal health staff perceived the expert patients' clinical competency to be somewhat inferior to the standard of care they provide.
