Sentence examples for somewhat softly from inspiring English sources

"My pride's hurt a little bit," Ryan said, somewhat softly.

This hourlong work begins somewhat softly, with a slippery solo by Ms. Silvers, who weaves her way around a standing phalanx of dancers, as the actor David Greenspan recites lines from Bruce Andrews's poetry: "Wind up a toy, wind up a country, wind up a life".

He is trim and somewhat formal, and speaks softly, with a trace of the accent of his native Trinidad.

"As an immigrant myself, it gets somewhat personal," he said softly, as the crowd picked at their cold eggs and sausage.

I tried to remember if I'd ever visited a riverbank in the Santa Monica Mountains when I was young, as I answered very softly and somewhat cryptically, "Oh, I think I must have been there when I was a child".

Many species have leaves that are opposite and softly hairy or somewhat fleshy; the calyx is often spurred, and the five joined petals form a two-lipped bilaterally symmetric tube with four or occasionally two anthers that are conspicuously joined in pairs by their pollen sacs.

Protection against discrimination María is somewhat shy and speaks very softly.

*Fictitious name Protection against discrimination María is somewhat shy and speaks very softly.

Which might have been acceptable, if somewhat less than democratic, if it wasn't for the fact that the softly-spoken but persuasive Nottingham MP Alan Simpson had long been expected to be the standard bearer of any far-left challenge.

He was somewhat laboriously ascending the bare wooden steps, caressing the bannister with his hand and whistling softly through his teeth.

After his somewhat non-descript overview of Eco Imagination (GE's Corporate Responsibility effort) about how business should invest in "green" solutions I softly raised my hand.