Sentence examples for somewhat when it is from inspiring English sources

The efficiency of carotenoid absorption may be increased somewhat when systemic vitamin A is low, and reduced somewhat when it is high.

Those young toughs on the street corner flinging words at each other like knives sound much less menacing when you know they're only debating which film to go to, and a passionate tête-a-tête in the supermarket aisle deflates somewhat when it's about tomato sauce.The way a language sounds to someone who doesn't speak it is something that I'm not sure has a formal name, but which I'll call mood.

The situation changes somewhat when it's impossible to steal what's in your "car".

The situation changes somewhat when it's impossible to steal what's in your "car". If people were going around making perfect copies of the CDs, radios, and umbrellas in our cars, door locks wouldn't really be necessary, would they?

The bumbling cause seems somewhat puny when it is contrasted with the annihilating effect, to say the least.

That advertisement has caused no end of chortling among Democrats, who assert that a message about the virtues of refusing special interest money is somewhat undercut when it is paid for by a party that has few such compunctions.

The cap is somewhat sticky when it is wet.

In addition, the Trichoplax situation is somewhat difficult to understand when it is realised that Homer and Cortactin, known as direct Shank partners in mammals and present in the Monosiga genome, are still present in Trichoplax despite apparent absence of Shank.

As Mr. Jones noted, Facebook's News Feed, the feature that lets users easily track friends' activity in one place, was somewhat controversial when it was introduced in 2006.

The American military was very powerful, but there were times, Ali told me somewhat ruefully, when it was slow to act.

This was somewhat undermined when it was discovered that the Greniers had kept a secret cache of 30 pornographic drawings made by Lautrec, one of which shows him being fellated by Lily".