7 sentences with 'somewhat'
Example sentences and phrases with the word somewhat and other words derived from it.
• « Fresh out of an all-boys' college, where I spent ten years, I still found it somewhat exciting that there were girls in my class, as we kept telling them. »
• « This was, in retrospect, a somewhat surprising conclusion given when the narrative was invented. »
• « Cambyses II died not long after, in 522 BCE, under somewhat mysterious circumstances - he supposedly fell on his sword while getting off his horse. »
• « The Macedonians lived in villages rather than polis and, while they were recognised as Greeks because of their language and culture, they were also regarded as somewhat parochial by the more 'civilised' Greeks to the south. »
• « Surprising from a contemporary perspective, however, is that it was not until 1442 (during the Renaissance) that the definitive and somewhat "final" version of the Bible was established by the Western Church when it defined exactly which books of the Old Testament were to be included and which were not. »
• « An interesting and, from a contemporary perspective, somewhat peculiar phenomenon in early Christianity was the focus on relics: holy objects. »
• « A symptom of the growth of intellectual life in the early Middle Ages was the fact that literacy (which, at that time, meant the ability to read, not necessarily to write) finally revived, at least somewhat, after the real low point of literacy that had lasted from the collapse of the Western Roman Empire until about 1050. »