Sentence examples for something of a formality from inspiring English sources

Juliet's outrage at Christa was actually something of a formality.

The rest was something of a formality, with Vancouver still looking for their first ever win at StubHub Center.

The handover was something of a formality, since for more than half a century everyone had thought that this remote patch of bottomland was actually part of Mexico.

This claim to be the world's best is something of a formality at these events and a boast I've heard many times from BBC chiefs over the years.

That appears to have been something of a formality, because he borrowed the $4 million and then repaid it with stock again and again.

Salah, who must pass a medical and agree personal terms, which is something of a formality, and become Chelsea's third signing of the month after Bertrand Traore and Nemanja Matic.

The deal had leaked in advance, making its final announcement something approaching a formality.

"Compulsively fastidious, with [the works'] dense, even surfaces of bright colors, they have about them something of the formality and hieratic quality of Byzantine art, combined with a whimsy that may or may not have been intended but is charming all the same".

And while fine-dining has taken something of a dressing-down (fussy, stuffy formality now feeling rather passé), the "chef's table" is on the rise — a raw, ungilded experience that allows six diners to eat in the heat and theater of a restaurant's kitchen (costing from £250 per head with wine at Gordon Ramsay's restaurants).

But I feel like naming it Benjamin was more of a formality than something people call me when they're mad at me.

In the 60s and 70s, wedding formality took something of a dip.