Sentence examples for somewhat wayward from inspiring English sources

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Tiger Woods ran into trouble on No. 17 with a somewhat wayward drive and his second shot lodged in the rough short of the green.

At age 8 he was sent to the Le Rosey boarding school in Switzerland, along with many children of the international jet set, and began a somewhat wayward life for the next two decades.

The fourth of Billy Graham's five children, he was, by his own telling, a somewhat wayward youth, a heavy smoker and a none-too-attentive student who preferred hunting to books.

"Ruthless" works best when it focuses on the unlikely bond between Heller and Wright (who died of AIDS-related complications in 1995), less so when it tries to burnish Heller's own credentials as a somewhat wayward youth in 1940s Ohio.

The general character of John's way of thinking comes over rather nicely in the introduction, where he makes it clear that his hugely ambitious study is inevitably going to be somewhat wayward and cannot take itself too seriously.

One of his visitors, his xenophobic, ageing sister-in-law, Jen, looks down on foreigners; she's accompanied by Tong, a sweet-natured nephew who turns out to be a monk of a somewhat wayward or playful kind.

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We've been slightly wayward ever since.

"A collection of strangers in a stolen hermit crab seashell". And as my designated driver proceeded to cruise L.A. streets through which he once escorted grander guests, I couldn't help but think that Dave Chasen's little diner had, for a final time, offered sanctuary to the last of those somewhat battered wayward knights of long ago.

Jarecki turned opportunity into a gift from God after being contacted by Durst following the release of All Good Things, his somewhat-biographical film about the wayward heir.

Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, or Natalie Cole's Wild Women Do, for example, both diluted their argument somewhat by explaining or apologising for their wayward antics.

Wayward genius (and incorrigible boozehound) that he was, his oeuvre is undeniably somewhat patchy.

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