Sentence examples for to be amiss from inspiring English sources

He declined to say what appeared to be amiss.

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

Darktrace's software learns what is "normal" in the flows of data around an IT system and spots when something is likely to be amiss.

"I do not pretend to be an expert in racing surfaces, nor in the training of racehorses, but I do know that something appears to be amiss at Zia Park".

Mr Hockney said in a statement that he came downstairs at the five-bedroom house at midnight to make a cup of tea where he met his former long-term partner, John Fitzherbert, and his chief assistant Jean Pierre De Lima but nothing appeared to be amiss.

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.

We're not getting married anytime soon, I have debt, there are hungry people in the world, etc. Would it be amiss to see if friends and family want to chip in for his half of the dinner?

It would not be amiss to call these transfers welfare payments.

Realising something is not quite right with the town's environment, our bearded and environmentally conscious hero begins to examine what might be amiss.

It would not be amiss to call him the West's first populist, and his speech an early instance of negative campaigning.

It wouldn't be amiss to order a thin-crusted pizza or two, also; the one with big fat capers, pecorino, a little mozzarella, oil and oregano is a personal favorite.