SOMEWHAT in a Sentence

Learn SOMEWHAT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

241 example sentences for SOMEWHAT, such as:

1. I find his style somewhat impenetrable.
2. Have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it today.
3. purchased a somewhat large quantity from Messrs.
4. And the behaviour of the cat was somewhat peculiar.
5. That's somewhat self contradictory, don't you think?

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 Meanings and Examples of SOMEWHAT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
somewhat
 ad.  to some extent or degree; rather; a bit; slightly
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Its somewhat ambitious title was "The Book of Life," and it attempted to show how much an observant man might learn by an accurate and systematic examination of all that came in his way.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  The A, if you noticed, was printed somewhat after the German fashion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
3  John Rance appeared to be somewhat irritated at this digression.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
4  The fellow came forward with a somewhat sullen, defiant air, and put down his hands to assist.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
5  It appeared to be somewhat too heavy for his strength, for in lowering it, it came down on the ground with some little violence.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
6  Opening the window very slowly and carefully, they waited until a dark cloud had somewhat obscured the night, and then one by one passed through into the little garden.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
7  On the edge of a jutting pinnacle, three or four hundred feet above him, there stood a creature somewhat resembling a sheep in appearance, but armed with a pair of gigantic horns.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
8  And the behaviour of the cat was somewhat peculiar.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
9  Muriel, the goat, could read somewhat better than the dogs, and sometimes used to read to the others in the evenings from scraps of newspaper which she found on the rubbish heap.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
10  On the third Sunday after Snowball's expulsion, the animals were somewhat surprised to hear Napoleon announce that the windmill was to be built after all.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
11  By the evening, however, Napoleon appeared to be somewhat better, and the following morning Squealer was able to tell them that he was well on the way to recovery.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
12  The geniality, as was the way of the man, was somewhat theatrical to the eye; but it reposed on genuine feeling.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
13  This little spirit of temper was somewhat of a relief to Mr. Utterson.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
14  purchased a somewhat large quantity from Messrs.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
15  Some two months before the murder of Sir Danvers, I had been out for one of my adventures, had returned at a late hour, and woke the next day in bed with somewhat odd sensations.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
16  The response to our advertisement has been somewhat disappointing.
17  Science museums have tried to shake off their somewhat starchy image by mounting exhibitions designed to draw in the crowds.
18  It's a musical instrument made of brass, somewhat like a cornet and with a similar compass.
19  I find his style somewhat impenetrable.
20  Marine construction technology like this is very complex, somewhat analogous to trying to build a bridge under water.
21  Thus Stiglitz sees the control problem as a multiple-principal-single- agent problem with each principal having a somewhat different objective.
22  Have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it today.
23  She felt that the fervent praise was excessive and somewhat undeserved.
24  Those levels are expected to remain robust this year, said the ratings firm, but be somewhat below 2008.
25  There is a Caribbean feel to the song and that type of energy and enthusiasm to the song that makes it somewhat mystifying.
26  Only on the hills skirting the valley, the trees were somewhat wild again.
27  That's somewhat self contradictory, don't you think?
28  The well-known face was there: stern, relentless as ever -- there was that peculiar eye which nothing could melt, and the somewhat raised, imperious, despotic eyebrow.
29  Till, emerging from the total and somewhat dreary silence pervading that portion of the house we had traversed, we came upon the hum of many voices, and presently entered a wide, long room.
30  Bessie's accounts of school-discipline were somewhat appalling, her details of certain accomplishment attained by these same young ladies were, I thought, equally attractive.