Sentence examples for slightly awry from inspiring English sources

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If some of the pronunciation was slightly awry, it mattered not at all.

There remains the ghost of an Osbornian wargame gone slightly awry.

Sometimes, IAK get carried away by their own greatness and it all goes slightly awry.

As a connoisseur of political cant, I have to confess I did enjoy one moment that went slightly awry.

Bell's timing was slightly awry in the first innings but yesterday, it was clear the rhythm was back.

But I took a strange kind of solace in the fact that some people's phone calls went slightly awry.

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He jousted with a technician about the tuning of the instrument: "Listen," he griped, plonking an ever-so-slightly-awry key, "who the heck tuned this piano this morning?" During breaks, he ate only crackers ("arrowroot biscuits") instead of the sandwiches the label brought in, and drank only water or skim milk.

There's an electricity to that kind of material, where it's slightly going awry.

For seasoned watchers of President Reagan, his mid-week speech in Chicago was a familiar scene gone slightly, and tellingly, awry.

Fa awry!

Everything imaginable went awry.

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