Sentence examples for counter somewhat from inspiring English sources

Annoyed at a perceived inequity in chore distribution, she slammed my glass of soda onto the counter, somewhat inadvertently splattering the liquid onto the floor and me.

Collins countered, somewhat curiously, by inserting Scott Hairston to pinch-hit for Daniel Murphy, the cleanup hitter.

That report was countered somewhat by the Institute for Supply Management's October manufacturing report, which showed activity in the sector increased last month and gave a boost to industrial names like Caterpillar and raw materials companies like Freeport-McMoRan.

This issue can be countered somewhat by using nonabusing subjects with a family history of AUDs and assessing them for impulsivity-related traits.

Portraits of malevolent gamecocks stare down from the kitchen walls, but the kitchen counters are somewhat disappointingly bare.

"The point at which interest rates may begin to rise is moving closer with the performance of the economy, consistent growth above trend, a firming in domestic costs, counter-balanced somewhat by disinflation imported from abroad," he said.

This runs somewhat counter to the Facebook self-image.

This view ran somewhat counter to the views on poverty and population that Malthus published two years later.

—briarpatch7171, LA I have a story which runs somewhat counter to most of the comments so far.

And I wasn't the only person to find Heartland's response running somewhat counter to the true spirit of a genuine wiki.

At first, it was rougher sledding than we anticipated, in part because many readers simply designed new emoticons, which ran somewhat counter to the spirit of the contest (though last week did mark the thirtieth anniversary of the smiley-face emoticon).