Sentence examples for somewhat seriously from inspiring English sources

One took them somewhat seriously, but maybe not completely seriously.

Nonetheless, there is an incentive to bowl at least somewhat seriously: everyone bowls for a charity.

We owe it to the governor to take him somewhat seriously.

He added that Mr. Munch was "somewhat seriously" hoping to get a real sasquatch to appear in the film.

During Thursday's morning skate at Air Canada Centre, however, the Penguins' top three were, somewhat seriously, bickering over a missed pass during a line rush.

No one died at the death match, but rules, like staying under seven minutes, were taken somewhat seriously, a fact Mr. Leong learned the hard way.

The Republican race is being taken somewhat more seriously.

OK, somewhat more seriously: one big thing that just happened was that the real America trumped the "real America".

In a hundred-and-ninety-one-page report about the Q.N.I., which was also released this month, Kalin and Kochenov wrote that traditional metrics take states "somewhat too seriously".

So this was the dizzying progression in the Washington diplomatic world: from believing that Saddam should be taken somewhat more seriously as a threat, to believing that an international coalition was going to oust him from power, to watching the coalition fall apart and the United States go to war anyway — and wondering whether it made a difference anymore what professional diplomats think.

The same idea, albeit somewhat more seriously expressed, lies at the core of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner when the ship's misadventures in a frozen sea are the context for the appearance of the ill-fated albatross whose intervention enables the sailors to escape the ice.