Sentence examples for so amiss from inspiring English sources
A: Skyfall opens in Istanbul, where, after a rooftop chase involving motorcycles, things go quite amiss for James Bond -- so amiss, in fact, that he's presumed dead.
Almost certainly there was nothing so outwardly amiss between them that it could have foretold the crime that unfolded on Monday morning inside the woman's apartment on East 56th Street, in the Flatlands neighborhood.
Something is ever so slightly amiss.
(Or maybe the device was purposefully amiss, so that older children might generate just such a hypothesis).
Selby can't hit the yellow, so foul and amiss is called, and then again - this time he gets much closer.
Because the L.I.R.R. had made progress in reducing workplace accidents, railroad managers wondered if something was amiss, so they contacted the Railroad Retirement Board.
Instead, it has risen over the decades rather than fallen, so something is amiss.For want of a better explanation, that "something" is now reckoned to be technological progress plus other forms of new knowledge in short, innovation.
When people expect a reward and do not receive it, their brains need a way to register the fact that something is amiss so it can recalibrate expectations for future events, Dr. Cohen said.
At this point, it's pretty clear to me something is amiss, so I answer it.
Some cybercriminals even fix the security flaws that allowed them to gain access to a computer network in the first place, like a burglar breaking a window and then replacing it before he leaves so nothing appears amiss.
