Sentence examples for uncertain manner from inspiring English sources

In general, an uncontrolled time-delay in the feedback changes the state of oscillations in an uncertain manner.

He prods at his birdie putt at 9 in a very uncertain manner, and it floats away to the right of the cup.

"Something about her uncertain manner... suggests a moth," as the stage directions describe Blanche at her entrance; but a moth Richardson ain't.

Moses is in his fifties, tall and rangy, with tightly curled graying hair and a disarmingly uncertain manner; in his thirties, he was a money manager, regularly featured in the financial press for generating spectacular returns.

The newcomer with most to prove is Fellaini, closely followed by his manager, who on and off the field has begun his Manchester United career in just the sort of uncertain manner he would have been hoping to avoid.

More than one of the dealers was angry at Christie's itself, for trying to sell in such a rushed and uncertain manner what Mr. Curiel had called in the sale's 154-page glossy hardcover catalog "one of the greatest jewelry collections of all times".

We fret about the possibility that our light bulbs might in some uncertain and marginal manner affect the climate of the planet, thus requiring mankind to adapt.

By the time the tide came in again his bag would be full of bits of scrap metal, driftwood, old clay pipes, bones of uncertain origin and all manner of other discarded "treasures".

Students are made aware of the presence of this system in class, but the details of the performance criteria rules are not publicised, meaning that students are aware of the potential for detection in this manner but uncertain of the scope of this oversight.

In an electrifying performance by the band, Gonsalves – who hadn't played the piece in a while, and was initially uncertain of his way around it – played 27 improvised choruses in a raunchily R&B and gospel-inflected manner.

David Cameron was stiff and occasionally uncertain, with an upper-class manner that appeared high-handed at times.