Sentence examples for spoke somewhat from inspiring English sources

Miss Bennett handed back the map and spoke somewhat pettishly from behind the handkerchief.

The vice president spoke somewhat hurriedly and seemed determined to keep a pleasant demeanor.

In the article, Ms. Rowling confessed to the ruse and spoke somewhat wistfully of her brief, happy foray into anonymous authorship.

However, it can be true that Schiller spoke somewhat out of school and that O'Keefe's doctoring of the tape was completely corrupt and unethical.

In conversation about her, another teacher spoke somewhat witheringly of the parenting she'd received: "They think it's important that she expresses herself!" he said, a sneer palpating across his upper lip.

In 2010, when Mr Obama outlined his ideas, he spoke, somewhat vaguely, of a manned trip to a near-Earth asteroid, to be followed at some unspecified date in the 2030s by the ultimate space-cadet dream a manned mission to Mars.

The voice-over speaks, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, of "the last man".

A male narrator, speaking somewhat breathlessly, reads the script as it passes.

But in truth, Tyson is speaking somewhat euphemistically when he refers to passion.

He speaks somewhat lugubriously, in impeccable English, but with hints of wry humour beneath his default setting of high seriousness.

Mr. Bloomberg was speaking somewhat metaphorically, as the chances of all 1.1 million city schoolchildren spending time in the opulent Tweed building are virtually nil.