Sentence examples similar to was somehow short from inspiring English sources

The Raptor (the name is somehow short for Rapid Cutter of Concrete) was honored yesterday by Popular Science magazine as one of the year's 100 most significant technological innovations, along with a digital camera that prints photographs, a shatterproof light bulb and a camera in a pill that takes pictures inside the human colon.

Yet, she was somehow able to parlay a short term of undistinguished classroom teaching, weekend and summer school coursework (on the taxpayers' dime) into what she now refers to as "a Columbia University doctorate".

Along the way, the movie indicates that short-selling was somehow related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, an idea raised at the time but never substantiated.

They can't possibly get it all done, and many end up feeling as if they are somehow falling short.

So, unless [you] argue that liberal arts majors are somehow in short supply, it's hard to argue this.

We talk about Rooney fulfilling or not fulfilling his potential as if winning every major domestic trophy and being his club and country's finest ever goalscorer is somehow falling short.

Strangely, all this was somehow less compelling than the man in shorts and red T-shirt who came next.

Everyone was somehow fine.

But she was, somehow.

This was somehow different.

This was somehow unexpected.