Sentence examples for told somewhat from inspiring English sources

The couple in front of me, wearing matching Adidas tracksuits, asked the hostess if they could sit together and were told, somewhat coldly, "We don't encourage it, but you can break down the partition and make a two-seater".

Bill Gross of PIMCO, a fund-management group, wrote recently that: "Cheque-writing in the trillions is not a bondholder's friend; it is in fact inflationary and, if truth be told, somewhat of a Ponzi scheme".But there is little sign that other bond-market investors agree with him.

The hairstylist John Barrett -- who once tried to budge Ivana Trump out of her golden beehive, only to be told, somewhat regally, "It's what people expect of me" -- suggests that we live in "a how-to age," one that essentially encourages conformity.

In her current lawsuit, the story is told somewhat differently.

Unfortunately, Jesus talks indirectly, telling somewhat meandering and hard-to-understand stories.

"When you become C.E.O., you can tell somewhat the behaviors change".

Han Dong, a noteworthy poet, is also a sly and beguiling novelist who tells somewhat fabulist, Murakami-esque tales of life under the Cultural Revolution.

The problem is that the two are now telling somewhat different stories.

It's a challenging picture episodic in telling, somewhat aloof emotionally, resisting at every turn the urge to become a conventional narrative (they could've leaned into the big, bombastic good vs. evil battle with China's Chairman Mao, say, or done a Great Escape-style ending for the Lama's exile to India).

Other people involved told a somewhat different version of events.

He always kind of told stories, somewhat exaggerated.