Sentence examples for was something amiss from inspiring English sources

"If you believed that there was something amiss, you would have used that subpoena power".

A clue that there was something amiss was in the fact the phrase, Allahu Akbar ("God is great", in Arabic), was misspelled.

Her concentration span was minimal and the sense that there was something amiss was reinforced by the fact that she drooled excessively, often requiring six or seven changes of clothes a day.

Even before the season began, on Chelsea's July tour of the US, Mourinho had perhaps sensed then that there was something amiss, had felt the lack of hunger, had recognised that certain players had begun to doubt him.

And few will dispute the government's claim that there was something amiss in a system that brought a mere handful of successful prosecutions for insider dealing.Yet, in the City, London's financial centre, critics say the government is giving the FSA too many powers.

The report, in somewhat breathless language, said one person figured out there was something amiss because the cell phone number of the person who pretended to be calling from the United States did not have an American area code, while the report said spies were recruited to gather information about cash machines and the Tehran subway system.

There is something amiss in this reasoning.

Clearly, there is something amiss, and history will judge the administration harshly.

Could it be there that there's something amiss in the climate story we're telling folks?

One reason that no one in the United States suspected there might be something amiss was the sheer magnitude of the risks he took.

But there is something amiss: look carefully and you'll notice the great leader smoking a cigarette.