How To Use Vaguely In A Sentence

Instead, it has vaguely proposed some form of co-operation or alliance with Pirelli.
Nevertheless, I was determined to be at least vaguely scientific about this review, so I pulled out the omnidirectional microphone I had borrowed from the media unit at work and started making recordings.
They wanted us to take out every single word that was even vaguely religious or spiritual.
You may talk vaguely about driving a coach – and – six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Parliament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter – bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy. A Christmas Carol
The vaguely realistic answer suggested in this popcorn film provides an entertaining alternative to standard superhero movies. Times, Sunday Times

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Did you know that sacking-like scratchy large-weave fabric with vaguely hairy fibres, the stuff they put on display screens and trendy flower arrangements, is called Hessian?
So Foster's got this vaguely martyr-like songbird persona she's working, and sometimes the devious witch bit sticks out too, as on ‘Crackerjack Fool’.
The Hand-e-holder is a simple device that consists of two parts: an adhesive disk applied to the back of your iPad, and a strap that looks vaguely like a biking glove and fits snuggly around your hand. Daily Dispatch: Microsoft patents innovative touch keyboard; Leatherbound lets you compare eBook prices
Making vaguely related assertions in response to an argument is not a counter-argument.
Maybe crushes are best left as vaguely disquieting feelings that tell us more about who we are than what we think about others. Times, Sunday Times
But the German wardresses remained vaguely aware of her special status and seem to have relaxed in her company.
Hugh succeeded in making this remark sound vaguely uncomplimentary. DOUBLE DECEIT
Danes long ago used the ashes of hay as a seasoning, so Mr. Redzepi does, too: they smell vaguely of popcorn, and have accessorized both an egg dish and one with king crab.
He felt his body roll as the ship careened and vaguely heard the rumble of explosions nearby, but he didn't come to until smoke forced him coughing to his feet.
Yes, you have no choice but to marvel at the rather beautiful new $2 billion house of the Ambani family, a vast vertical hamlet for plutocrats with a design that vaguely recalls a snazzy Bang and Olufsen hi-fi stack. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
She was singing along to a tune on the radio that sounded vaguely familiar.
‘Me too,’ says Christopher and we rejoin the arrowed path and wander off in vaguely the direction we think we came from earlier.
Neat, compact, there was something about her vaguely reminiscent of a seal pup.
From his vaguely defined methodological stance, Snooks criticizes Darwin's use of analogy.
No telly, on account of the fact the schedulers have so perfectly blended Christmas morning into the regular day-to-day line-up that there was nothing even vaguely worth watching.
I vaguely remembered the name Hypatia from posters my mom had around the Math room of Women In Mathematics, but that was about it. Agora | Mind on Fire
Certainly her husband, pushing their trolley, seemed vaguely familiar. Times, Sunday Times
The cloying heaviness of snacking on cheese instead of ginger snaps left me feeling dull and vaguely nauseous.
However, equally I don't think one can credibly take a blithely post-modern approach and mutter vaguely about ‘multiple truths’, if basic historical factual assertions have been misstated.
He came back to Carbon County and the North Platte again and again, first to hunt and fish and, finally, when the bison were gone and most of the biggest heads hung on the walls of estates in the British Isles, to vaguely oversee the cattle ranch that became his in 1883. Bird Cloud
They were treated as nonentities by the legal and social adjudicators of British later, Australian Tasmania, allowed grudgingly to occupy land on the islands without ever being acknowledged as its owners, and referred to dismissively as “half-castes” or, vaguely, as “the Islanders.” The Song of The Dodo
Daniel Abraham has the toughest job to pull off her with the multi-story Jonathan Hive tales, going from smartarse blogger, to vaguely panicked smartarse war correspondent. Superhero Prose Fiction: Wild Cards - 18 Inside Straight
= -- The term phyllomania has been vaguely applied both to the production of an unwonted number of leaves and to their development in unusual situations. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Another problem I foresee is that a user will have to click hundreds of times just to get their top 20 list into a vaguely acceptable state. FlickChart Makes Movie Ranking Fun | Lifehacker Australia
By contrast, the ranks of subjects whom Andy represented, like himself, occluded and determinedly not smiling, is equally revealing, as if to conjure not so much by passive aggression as by vaguely sexualized sullenness, even vacancy, the dominant mood of international fame in the 1970s and early to mid-1980s. Archive 2009-01-01
He thought vaguely what a good moral the contrast would have pointed to the sixteenthly of one of his great ancestor's sermons; then he fell to wondering if the old gentleman's theology would have stood the strain of an experience like this. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
The New York University sociologist Dalton Conley has written of a “network nation,” in which applications like Facebook and MySpace create “crosscutting social groups” and new, flexible identities that only vaguely overlap with racial identities. The End of White America?
It is also, rather vaguely, thought of as a revolutionary activity.
The distorted semblances of the trees on the other side were vaguely visible through it, mocking him cruelly in the emptiness.
After laying down discrete patches of dark umber in grid formations, Briggs dragged an unloaded brush through the pigment, leaving behind episodic squiggles that vaguely resemble Chinese characters.
Looking at them, you really do think of twirling lariats, and here the vaguely bordello colors, along with a kind of supercharged motion, suggest a semi-frantic, but also humorous, licentiousness.
The vaguely realistic answer suggested in this popcorn film provides an entertaining alternative to standard superhero movies. Times, Sunday Times
For some reason, writer-director George Daugherty chose to remove Peter and the Wolf from its Russian origins and recast it in a vaguely Swiss, northern European setting.
Shaftesbury's formulation of sentimentality as either a manifestation of latitudinarianism or deism, both vaguely secularized systems of advancing self-sufficient virtue as the means by which manners dominated and controlled behavior in the public realm. Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos
I vaguely remember, you thin lips stuck on my forehead carefully,as if the whole world becomes quiet.
Since he was vaguely right, I now feel honor-bound to apologize to my buddy, here on a weblog that I'm certain he'll never see.
Is there not something vaguely ironic about this? Times, Sunday Times
Our 'playpen' consisted of the odd comic strip, the novelisations, some vaguely surreal annuals, those Viewmaster slides, a Gareth Hunt doll and some stories that literally unfolded on chocolate wrappers. Behind the Sofa - The Collaborative Doctor Who Blog
His work at this time was vaguely Surrealist, with forms resembling primitive hieroglyphs painted in a heavy impasto.
See, in order to get my fine, straight hair to even vaguely do the bouffant standing-up thing, Tony had had to go at me with hairdryer and tongs and more hairspray than you might see at the average Miss World contest.
The media were not the only ones indulging in vaguely pointless activities. Times, Sunday Times
The “river” itself was more like a sludge channel, and trees hugged at its banks, choking it at impossible angles on either side, looking vaguely as though two armies were facing off with spindly and florid pikes, unsure who would make the first move over the brown, oily runnel between them. Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
Curious though it sounds, from that vaguely trivial dispute grew a feud that has lasted to this day. Times, Sunday Times
We love it when dull generic thrillers get given vaguely technological titles to try and make them sound more interesting and get it wrong.
The alien's head was round and massive with bulblike structures protruding from its forehead, and it lacked anything even vaguely resembling a neck. Addicts
We bless and we curse effetely all the livelong day, vaguely cognizant of some long lost momentousness, too jejune in our materialism to believe in anything. WORLDMag.com
I was vaguely conscious that I was being watched.
Good weight of fruit and a vaguely rough tannins lead to an unsurprising warm alcoholic finish.
Colleagues at work have been either very impressed (women, young people and the vaguely queeny boy in IT) or derisory (most of the men).
These days I rarely phone a friend and often feel vaguely affronted if they ring me. Times, Sunday Times
Most, to be honest, follow the shamrock pint head stamp and the grassed worldcup beermat into the bin, but this morning's arrival actually looks vaguely interesting and possibly fun. Strange advertising thingies in the post...
He was vaguely aware of footsteps behind him.
They look vaguely similar to the sharks of Jaws infamy, huge midriffs tapering to a point at snout and tail.
As the robber was talking, a vaguely humanoid figure leaped from the rooftop of the adjacent building and crept into the bank.
The name Bolden was vaguely familiar, but he couldn’t place it. The Kennedy Detail
Beyond Mr Jefferson's high black hat, through those tangled dew-drops of flame, Mr Goosevort saw golden hair glide softly through the oasis of bodies gathered vaguely round the stage, Mr Umberto and Mrs. Jefferson laughed again together, and Mr Howle's mournful ululation could be heard adrift a lake of rabble... golden hair turning away and fluttering into the shadow of a winding stairway. Mr Goosevort
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He mauled the delicate sticks with his melon-sized hands, eventually plucking out two that were vaguely gold col - ored. Stalling
She waved vaguely in the direction of the house.
He looked at her vaguely and then he focussed his gaze once more on the picture. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
Speakers, dance companies, musical groups, lecturers, and vaguely edifying entertainments made the rounds; it was hugely successful.
Each week teams would have to carry out vaguely ludicrous tasks under the tuition of Glenn Reynolds.
They are also vaguely contemptuous of his beady-eyed negotiations regarding fees and wardrobe allowances.
He was also vaguely aware that if she had been a more brilliant woman she would have been a more exacting one, and less easily impressed. Emily Fox-Seton
Similarly instead of the poppies, we had red vaguely heartshaped symbols with the Nigerian flag and a bleeding heart in the middle. Poppy brouhaha, farewell to Rummy, no to IBB, missing Gukira& looking for a new mobile network
Garbanzo beans, Marcona almonds and golden raisins, along with cumin in the sausage, turned the dish vaguely Moroccan.
Angola, which is about twice the size of Texas, may be a nation with a vaguely familiar ring to many Americans.
I planned to vaguely skim-read it to blag a semi-decent grade. Times, Sunday Times
Plato, and has been vaguely voiced at intervals down through the centuries; but its complete establishment came only as an indirect issue of the great scientific discoveries of the nineteenth century, and its application to the problems of practical schoolcraft and its dissemination through the rank and file of teachers awaited the dawn of the twentieth century. Craftsmanship in Teaching
I always feel vaguely cheated because lightning mesmerizes me and I watch it avidly when the opportunity arises.
Once aboard, to his fugitive embarrassment, he is accosted by a young girl he vaguely remembers.
She wandered about the kitchen restlessly, vaguely tidying up, putting things away more or less at random. THE EXECUTION
The gently soothing flute arrangements give a vaguely laid-back chilled perspective to the overall process.
Bovary vaguely contributed to his pleasure by a kind of egotistic reflex upon himself. Madame Bovary
“She surely deserves it all,” Graham murmured, although vaguely hurt in that the addle-pated, alphabet-obsessed, epicurean anarchist of an Irishman who gloried in being a loafer and a pensioner should even mildly be in love with the Little Lady. CHAPTER XII
Siobhan shook her head in grim amusement as Orbison came to his vaguely masturbatory climax and the answerphone clicked off. The Priest
There is nothing biased or discriminatory or even vaguely xenophobic about this.
I was vaguely aware that some of the people in the gym were hungry.
Trevor stood beside something that vaguely resembled the gym apparatus known as a pommel-horse, holding an object like a cross between a large hot water bottle and an elephant's trunk, he referred to as an "AV. Chrome Circle
In particular, the province's vaguely defined outcomes-based curriculum can be seen by teachers as licence to teach whatever they wish.
If otherwise, it is vaguely approbative, with the implication, as to the work approved, of some pleasing archaeological reconstruction.
Our palpitant Editor was vaguely aware of some kind of sensation playing upon his arm but he was too excited to care.
There was moss and dirt caked into the cracks, but there was a seam of some sort, vaguely in the shape of a rectangle.
Janelle takes no notice of Harold except to vaguely tell him to "look under things," for their clothes, and then goes back to eating her dinner.
She vaguely realised that she was probably experiencing a shock reaction.
Just going by a vaguely detected linguistic tic, I think this particular leader was written by the Guardian's timid political editor.
Yet scarcely a hint of this hugely important story is contained in the Oxburgh report, which simply glosses it over, hoping to appease critics by throwing in a few vaguely critical comments about how Jones and his team were a trifle "disorganised" in archiving their data. British Blogs
A donair is sort of like a gyros but the meat is vaguely identified as beef and the sauce is sweet.
He prays to God in some dim, dumb way, and vaguely imagines when he has been expedited from this sad world by a machete slash or bayonet thrust or high-velocity steel-jacketed bullet that all will be made square in that other world where God rules and where taskmasters are not. Mexico's Army and Ours
Sackers" like Brady – who in truth does not do a lot on JuniorApprentice but presumably got the gig for her experience of working with self-made men of vaguely scrotal appearance – are clearly going to be in increasingly high demand in these straitened times. 'Sacker' Karren Brady would never sugar the pill for Gianfranco Zola
It's a handheld device, vaguely reminiscent of a transistor radio from yesteryear.
Still, I felt vaguely specious to be standing up at the front with the other three. THE CALLIGRAPHER
I vaguely knew that the Count or Elector Palatine (an older equivalent is palsgrave), the ruler of the Palatinate, was so called (in the OED's words) "as exercising the sovereign's authority in certain matters, or as having a jurisdiction within a given territory such as elsewhere belongs to the sovereign alone," and I knew that the German equivalent of Languagehat.com
Anyway, two things actually make most of this irrelevant…first up, I only drink tea and won’t pay more than fifty pence for it under most circumstances its a social habit..tea is for sitting around other peoples houses with…that’s my opinion. therefore my personal boycott is entirely irrelevant and not even vaguely threatening to Starbuck’s. Still not dead « raincoaster
It made me vaguely nervous to see it there, so close, though in a disconnected type of way.
It's the way Xavi, Barcelona et. al. and all the Spain/ tika-taka devotee's look upon anything else as vaguely heretical. How do you like your sour grapes, Señor Xavi Hernández? | Richard Williams
These include reimagined versions of the portrait bust, such as Jonathan Baldock's salt-dough heads decorated with cloth and hair (echoing the vaguely tribal sensibility of Ryan Mosley's paintings, with which they share a gallery) and Steven Claydon's mock-heroic demagogue, subverted by the peacock feather over one eye and the fact that the patina on the coppered surface was achieved by urinating on the sculpture. The State of Young Art in Britain
It does have some redeeming features, such as the story being vaguely original, and these carry it through. The Sun
At first the officers in charge of the troops garrisoned in the city were vaguely apprehensive of trouble in the ranks.
Experts say that the law is vaguely drafted and that allows retailers to claim internal costs as part of the fee. Times, Sunday Times
The phrase that Walt popularized that raises hackles, because it is a name, which implies a (corporate) entity being named and is for that reason vaguely conspiratorial in connotation, is “Israel Lobby.” Matthew Yglesias » A Valentine From Steven Walt
Even if you accept that we Brits might look alike to our Stateside counterparts - pallid and vaguely unkempt with teeth the wrong side of ''eggshell'' - this is a stretch. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
I vaguely recall writing down the codes months ago and losing whatever it was I wrote them on.
When they wheeled him out he was vaguely conscious, twitching slightly less, but bleeding copiously. Archive 2009-03-01
At the heart of this New Age spiritual psychology are a number of concepts vaguely reminiscent of biorhythms, numerology, astrology, tarot card reading, and Myers-Briggs personality inventories.
The form was vaguely human, but also amphibian, with a froglike mouth opened wide and glittering white gems for eyes. End of Time
I vaguely remember playing soccer and having fun with my old friends.
Compared to mediums like oil or acrylic, watercolor has a vaguely genteel air.
Something about her voice was vaguely familiar.
Certainly her husband, pushing their trolley, seemed vaguely familiar. Times, Sunday Times
And surmounting a higher ledge beyond this upthrust a huge dome of dull gold, Cyclopean, striking eyes and mind with something unhumanly alien, baffling; sending the mind groping, as though across the deserts of space, from some far-flung star, should fall upon us linked sounds, coherent certainly, meaningful surely, vaguely familiar -- yet never to be translated into any symbol or thought of our own particular planet. The Moon Pool
The voice on the line was vaguely familiar, but Crook couldn't place it at first.
It took a world with which most of us are vaguely familiar and made it a little more so. Times, Sunday Times
Is there not something vaguely ironic about this? Times, Sunday Times
She's vaguely deluded, thinking the viewers see her as funny and cute.
Preserving the iambic senarii proved too restrictive, so I switched to a vaguely anapaestic waltz rhythm and made up a tune that allowed our singer to put a comic pause, if she wished, before the final syllables at the end of each line.
She had a compensatory pallor, and when she reached out, vaguely patting at my little brothers, she did it with fingers like rolled dough. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
I know, that sentence sounds vaguely porny on this end too.
Since its first coming into use the term atheism has been very vaguely employed, generally as an epithet of accusation against any system that called in question the popular gods of the day. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
From these, in a narrow and a dirty street devoted to such callings, Mr Wegg selects one dark shop-window with a tallow candle dimly burning in it, surrounded by a muddle of objects vaguely resembling pieces of leather and dry stick, but among which nothing is resolvable into anything distinct, save the candle itself in its old tin candlestick, and two preserved frogs fighting a smallsword duel. Our Mutual Friend
You reminded me of someone I remember vaguely from my very early childhood.
And this album clearly recalls the band's original, vaguely seedy electropop sound, with contemporary beat collages and nouveau sheen giving it a breath of new life.
On the face of it, the ad for Belvita breakfast biscuits seems pretty elementary, with two vaguely faded celebs – Lisa Snowdon and Johnny Vaughan, palpably wondering where those halcyon Big Breakfast days went – bantering about the product, in this case an oaty, grainy biscuitty thing. The Hard Sell: Belvita Breakfast Biscuits
The architect, save in _The Master Builder_, is almost unknown; the engineer, unspecialised as a rule, figures vaguely sometimes. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
The Dodd-Frank law is so vaguely written that, as former top Fed lawyer Michael Bleier points out, 'the overall economic and financial circumstances in which a hypothetical failure will occur are not determinable, even where many aspects of a firm's structure and operations are': Without knowing what caused the distress leading to the 'failure', it will be difficult for a firm to establish that its resolution plan will actually prevent further distress. Are 'Systemically Important' Institutions Too Big To Fail?
He got a five-minute major penalty for boarding, and a game misconduct for something vaguely felonious.
Look at photographs of them and they may appear vaguely familiar. Times, Sunday Times
He spoke rather vaguely of contacts with directors of rugby to try to obtain time out for the knackered, now and again.
The Divine Comedy is primarily Neil Hannon, an idiosyncratic, vaguely fey Brit who does a mean impression of Thom Yorke doing a mean impression of Cole Porter.
She was only vaguely aware of the sound of car engines starting and the flash of headlights illuminating them as they drove by.
After the bit about important people in cars I had: ‘On occasion they might vaguely hear a hysterical yap from the left front wheel.’
I deleted something that might be vaguely offensive, then forgot to renumber! Southbound
Not a single one of them has anything even vaguely resembling a redeeming feature.
A purplish, long, vaguely cylindrical ship shot up into the air, and rammed him full broadside.
To which she would gush some vaguely affirmative reply and vanish back into the kitchen to try the recipe.
I was vaguely aware of a crowd of people all around me who had been ejected less dramatically, but I put my full attention to leaping up and kicking the bejeezus over and over out of that door.
He vaguely remembered first learning to master the tessellated squares alone in his basement, a cobwebbed series of spider nests along the ceiling, the static sheen of a computer screen backlighting their wiry, clockwise movement. Empty Windows, Empty Rooms
Settling into his chair, the king waved vaguely at the man to signal him that he could read his missive.
For work in the hand, CREWEL-STITCH is perhaps, on the whole, the easiest and most useful of stitches; whence it comes that people sometimes vaguely call all embroidery crewel work; though, as a matter of fact, the stitch properly so called was never very commonly employed, even when the work was done in "crewel," the double thread of twisted wool from which it takes its name. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery
Based on green tea, maté and rooibos, it is vaguely, slightly, better than the rest. Times, Sunday Times
The church plan, vaguely reminiscent of a classical basilica, is a simple asymmetric rectangle.
It's not as if the food is vaguely edible, it tastes like chemical goo.
I was struggling to get out of the pub with my rucksack, when I was pressed against someone who looked vaguely familiar.
In one direction the word expands into the adjective “satiric,” vaguely referring to any slightly muted expression of hostility; and in the other direction it narrows to a particular literary genre or myth, like comedy, tragedy, and epic, with a characteristic subject matter, style, and structure. SATIRE
The Lady Boys of Bangkok, or the sound of them and their audience at least, rising exuberantly from the theatre next door to contend with the wisdom of the later panelists: a vaguely fantastical backdrop to musings on fantasy. Brian Ruckley · Alt.Fiction 2008: Getting There, Being There, Getting Back
Under this standard, a subpoena that is peripheral to the case, or that is drawn too broadly or vaguely, is unlikely to be enforced unless it is focussed and narrowed.
A few grooves in a tree trunk, looking vaguely like a face, elevated into being the sacred image of our saviour.
Colors tend to be exquisite, but in an unusual way, at once vivid and fading, as if a still-potent splendor were half-vanishing before one's eyes, introducing a vaguely mournful, even elegiac tone.
He showed no sign of being effected by my harsh look, as he remained his annoying self, humming some tune I was vaguely familiar with.
The nutty, vaguely familiar taste of mustard seed and the earthy smell of curry leaves waft from the fritter, but vada pav approaches perfection because it mingles potent flavors with so many comforting textures: squooshy bread, creamy and slightly lumpy mashed potato and a hint of crunch from the batter. Pow, Right in the Fritter
Mann 1973 raised questions about the “interminability” of long-term open-ended treatment and suggested that vaguely defined goals and therapist’s countertransference problems caused inappropriately prolonged therapy. Clinical Work with Adolescents
He felt vaguely depressed and lost.
Otherwise, we have more of the lumbering and vaguely stegosaur-like "stegodons" seen elsewhere in Azeroth and a bizarre mutation of basilisk that they're calling "Diemetradon" (clearly loosely inspired by the Permian-aged Dimetrodon, which, you'll note, isn't a dinosaur, but, rather, a pelycosaurian synapsid). Howard Hughes Looks the Other Way
Oh, then, you're taking a little trouble, after all," Vera said, laughing, and she vanished vaguely, behind a brocaded _portière_, leaving a very faint perfume of gilliflower. The Twelfth Hour
His vaguely expressed initiative on nuclear weapons prompted scepticism in Moscow. Times, Sunday Times
If they ever did come to earth, they would probably attempt to live among us with vaguely humorous results.
There is something vaguely fascist in that utter blankness and justification by heroism.
Judith could vaguely remember her mother lying on the sofa.
The vaguely worded bills seek to criminalize safe and common abortion procedures throughout pregnancy.
He was in an aisle seat beside two tough-looking men with vaguely familiar faces.
I was vaguely aware of others taking cover. Times, Sunday Times
If I were scripting this whole thing as a "Wag The Dog" dark satire (I might start on that tonight), I would have editrix Joanna Coles and some white-haired, CBS honcho (who vaguely understands twitter as something his grandkids use) meeting in a suite at The Four Seasons with the slick 23 year-old social media mastermind who's making this whole thing go click, click, click. Erica Kennedy: Are Marie Claire and CBS Wagging the Dog?
The church plan, vaguely reminiscent of a classical basilica, is a simple asymmetric rectangle.
He wagged his index finger, beckoning in a vaguely menacing way.
If you like vaguely punky, you'll like this.
Problem is, this pushes Mandell's vaguely tenuous, aloof vocals up front, affected twangs, warbles and all.
There was an unfacetted crimson gem (he vaguely remembered having heard a similar gem called a bloodstone) in the grip, just behind one of the smooth, tapering arms of the guard. Nightside The Long Sun
Her face seems vaguely familiar , but I can't quite place her.
Unfortunately I started by vaguely hacking around with Perl and have developed some appalling habits which Perl quite happily lets me get away with.
And someone famous enough that I vaguely recognized the name wrote about hell being the torture of a bad conscience. As Husbands Go
Her face was vaguely familiar, and Floyd suddenly became aware that the Administrator was looking at him with a quizzical smile.
But whenever I read it it calls forth for me an image that surely was nothing at all like what Eliot had in mind: that silent sea is, for me, the paleozoic one of the Cambrian or Silurian period of four hundred million years ago, and the owner of that pair of ragged claws is the curious mud-crawling creature known as a _eurypterid, _ a vaguely lobsterish thing that reached lengths of eight feet and more. Asimov's Science Fiction
His vaguely expressed initiative on nuclear weapons prompted scepticism in Moscow. Times, Sunday Times
Hey, Ohahtahgoosiam I has a wonderin, yur name souns vaguely lak sumtin I fink I lernt in skout kamp inna 60′s menny memories of 60′s oblit by subsekwent proklivities. Saving the species… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
M. Ward) teams up with a quintuply ubiquitous, egregiously doe-eyed, vaguely quirky film actress (Zooey Deschanel). NPR Topics: News
Something about her voice was vaguely familiar.
All three of us pitched in and got the man over to a worn leather couch that held onto the vaguely human indentation of someone tall and heavy recently removed.
Some of the neophytes such as myself have been discussing this of late, though we've been talking specifically about the MMOGs themselves, and splitting them, vaguely and unassuredly, between "World" and "Game". Burn baby burn
Vaguely, he heard church bells from the city strike their hours, their clear sound muted by the snow and by the rose curtain draped partially over the study window.
If you hear a tantrum of unearthly proportions coming from a vaguely northeasterly direction tomorrow afternoonish, sorry for the noise. A symphony of icepicks « The Life and Times of Organic Mama
It's also supposed to have vaguely defined ‘therapeutic’ qualities, most palpably felt at this point on Christmas Day as a warm, woozy sort of imbecility.
They're not even vaguely bee-stung. The Sun
This I find vaguely irksome. Times, Sunday Times
I watched Paul Young while he wrote the required information onto another billhead provided by the barman and wondered vaguely why he didn't carry business cards to save himself that sort of bother. PROOF
“She surely deserves it all,” Graham murmured, although vaguely hurt in that the addle-pated, alphabet-obsessed, epicurean anarchist of an Irishman who gloried in being a loafer and a pensioner should even mildly be in love with the Little Lady. CHAPTER XII
Nonpolarizing neuromuscular blocking agents such as succinylcholine can cause fasiculations, which are vaguely convulsive, but that is why polarizing agents such as rocuronium are used to suppress fasiculations, which can interfere with tracheal intubation (i.e., inserting a breathing tube). Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
The blurriness of it distorted the man's features, rendered them vaguely indistinct like the image of a ghost. THE EXECUTION
The regulations make what is vaguely described as "profiting others" a crime.
As his stepmother had not even taken leave of him, but had entrusted his departure to the relative with whom he had been lately living, it was considered as an act of "riddance," and accepted as such by her party, and even vaguely acquiesced in by the boy himself. A Waif of the Plains
Vaguely employed gossipmonger Bonnie Fuller tried to make "cutes" a word. Gawker
It was, in the end, vaguely insulting - the adult equivalent of getting picked last for kickball.
I am only vaguely involved in this year's school production, but I am involved as I spent some time this weekend hemming the ends of tablecloths for it.
A huge black-and-brown mutt flung itself against the wire at her; something that looked vaguely like a corgi looked at her indifferently.
Instead, it has vaguely proposed some form of co-operation or alliance with Pirelli.
Seemingly possessed by his hands, he becomes a murderer, choking friends and foe alike, vaguely seeking to revenge the death of Meta's father.

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