something doesn't seem right

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

But wait, something doesn't seem right.

But if you've got experience and you know the right questions to ask, you can sense when something doesn't seem right.

People needed to be more aware of the problem, she said, and urged anyone who had concerns that "something doesn't seem right" to contact Freedom.

Practicing what I believe to be good management, I sat down with her and her manager and calmly said, "When a vendor or anyone else tells us that something doesn't seem right, we need to look into it".

I hope she gets that strong look around her mouth quite often, whenever something doesn't seem right or feel right, I hope she will stand solidly for things that matter to her, those acts of disobedience that lead to a better world or a more complete life.

Like T.H.C., after death, that metabolite "has the potential to go up, but it would hard to account for all the amount that's there by redistribution," said Robert A. Middleberg, the laboratory director at NMS Labs in Willow Grove, Pa., adding, "It tells us something doesn't seem right here, in terms of her having access to marijuana in place she shouldn't have".

When you are spending a few hundred dollars in fees a semester in addition to the actual tuition, something does not seem right.

Three items did not load on any of the factors; namely 'It is just by chance that more serious mistakes don't happen around here' (A10), 'We are given feedback about changes put into place based on event reports' (C1), and 'Staff are afraid to ask questions when something does not seem right' (C6).

For all three samples these were C4 "Staff feel free to question the decisions or actions of those with more authority", C6 "Staff are afraid to ask questions when something does not seem right", A15 "Patient safety is never sacrificed to get more work done" and A7 "We use more agency/temporary staff than is best for patient care".

Two of these items: ' Staff are afraid to raise questions if something does not seem right' and ' Disciplines work together well to provide the best care for patients' were deleted from the questionnaire, since the content of these items were covered to a great extent by other items.

Rosemond Dane told two juries yesterday that something "didn't seem right" when two men entered her friend's apartment above the Carnegie Delicatessen.