Sentence examples for to amiss from inspiring English sources

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to amiss

adjective

Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.

  • He suspected something was amiss.

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Eager to put a voice to Amiss, I ask what she sounded like.

She laughs and says when she was ordained she sent a photograph to Amiss, who wrote back saying: "Oh my word!

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Would we think it amiss to train the staff at a school in the Heimlich maneuver in case a child starts choking on a grape?

He declined to say what appeared to be amiss.

Despite her shady past, Wikimedia founder Jimmy Wales has stated that he doesn't expect anything to be amiss and has promised to cover any discrepancies out of pocket if necessary.

Drawn to see Amiss's origins, I travel to Sunderland, where I visit her grammar school, her now boarded-up art college and the docks where her father had been laid off, remaining unemployed for five years before starting up the shop with Belle.

His closeness to his parents that seemed to be amiss before is now truly palpable.

Plans for a day out the next day with members of her family were scuppered because of the bad weather but when her father-in-law later dropped off her one-year-old son, Phaedra, that Sunday afternoon in April to her house in Kent, nothing appeared to be amiss.

England managed to secure draws in the next three Tests, thanks to Dennis Amiss' 262 in the second Test and Keith Fletcher's 129 in the third, while rain prevented a result in the fourth Test.

If anything does seem to be amiss, call over one of the poll workers — they'll be able to help.

"Significant outside intervention, therefore, may not be necessary; however, gentle encouragement from Pretoria is unlikely to be amiss.

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