Sentence examples for were amiss from inspiring English sources

Indeed, Motorola instituted a similar reorganisation a year later.Having realised things were amiss, Nokia responded quickly.

It is not the first sign that things were amiss at the CPS.

He recovered quickly and when he was unsaddled walked off as though nothing were amiss.

When guests arrived at the Scruggses' home, they were greeted by Dickie and Diane as if nothing were amiss.

Yet the American treasury secretary's worker ants continue to draft financial reforms as if nothing were amiss.

By the time the couple began reading Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, things were amiss in the bedroom.

Something is amiss here".

Something was amiss.

Clearly, something was amiss.

Something, surely, is amiss.

So what is amiss?