Sentence examples for down a somewhat from inspiring English sources

When she started giving away the Bullitt family money about 10 years ago, Ms. Collins went down a somewhat traditional path, donating to the symphony, the art museum, theaters and the library.

Though some patrons may bristle at the new location, the Gold Dust Lounge has managed to hold down a (somewhat) local following in Union Square – the only neighborhood in San Francisco that might be more touristy than Fisherman's Wharf.

He led the way down a somewhat shabby corridor to his apartment at the far end, where Melissa Kretschmer, his wife, was drying her hair.

Why? Tudor Parfitt, an anthropologist from London University who has taken a leading role in this search, tracks down a somewhat mysterious village called Sena, to which the Lemba trace their origins.

A February BBC News survey asked Britons, "From what you know and have heard, do you think that the earth's climate is changing and global warming is taking place?" Seventy-five percent of respondents answered affirmatively, down a somewhat improbable eight percentage points from 83 percent in November.

We laid down a somewhat stringent condition on content-based measures (namely, the value of content for truths) but we have only required a very lax, supervenience condition for likeness-based measures (namely, that the likeness of a proposition to the truth be some function or other of the likeness of the worlds in the proposition to the actual world).

But this show, too, suffered problems of pacing: The action grew increasingly elliptical and the music less effective, down to a somewhat anticlimactic finale (though the creator might argue that this suited the grim subject).

The YikeBike, she folds down to a somewhat-manageable size.

He assured us that the Americans had become "bogged down," and made a somewhat confusing reference to the movie "Wag the Dog".

Seven years later, as an Athonite monk, he sat down to write a somewhat critical assessment of Ilarion's booklet, and had another spiritual experience: an "emptiness, coldness and darkness" possessed him, and he realised that Ilarion was right and his critics wrong.

This will form a recess for the lid to set down on, creating a somewhat better seat for the lid to set in Mark two pieces of lumber the width of the chest long, here, 10 1/4 inches (26 cm).