CORRECT in a Sentence
Learn CORRECT 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.
246 example sentences for CORRECT, such as:
1. Yes, that's basically correct.
2. Your clear reasoning is quite correct.
3. Please check that these details are correct.
4. Glasses can correct most errors in your vision.
5. It's not correct to describe them as 'students'.
2. Your clear reasoning is quite correct.
3. Please check that these details are correct.
4. Glasses can correct most errors in your vision.
5. It's not correct to describe them as 'students'.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CORRECT
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correct
a. socially right or correct
a. correct in opinion or judgment
Classic Sentence: (168 in 12 pages)
1 If my view of the case is correct, and I have every reason to believe that it is, this man would rather risk anything than lose the ring.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
2 There was the dead dog, however, to prove that his conjecture had been correct.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
3 Henceforward the farm was to be known as "The Manor Farm"--which, he believed, was its correct and original name.
4 I availed myself of your obliging hints to correct my timidity, and it is unnecessary to add that they were perfectly accurate.
5 He hath since come to England, unexpected by his brethren," said Ben Israel; "and he cometh among them with a strong and outstretched arm to correct and to punish.
6 But the housekeeper had served Sir Geoffrey for many years, and the dried-up, elderly, superlatively correct female you could hardly call her a parlour-maid, or even a woman.
7 They're the mingiest set of ladylike snipe ever invented: full of conceit of themselves, frightened even if their boot-laces aren't correct, rotten as high game, and always in the right.
8 That proves that what I've always thought about you is correct: you're not normal, you're not in your right senses.
9 I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
10 'What he says is quite correct,' observed Blathers, nodding his head in a confirmatory way, and playing carelessly with the handcuffs, as if they were a pair of castanets.
11 She was a benevolent, charitable, good woman, and capable of strong attachments, most correct in her conduct, strict in her notions of decorum, and with manners that were held a standard of good-breeding.
12 Everything united in him; good understanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the world, and a warm heart.
13 The report that Diggory had brought of the wedding, correct as far as it went, was deficient in one significant particular, which had escaped him through his being at some distance back in the church.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
14 It is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly correct than the official force.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
Context Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
15 But which of these is correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we shall no doubt find waiting for us.
Example Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1 The committee lacked a correct estimate of his ability.
2 His analysis of urban use of agricultural land has been proved essentially correct.
3 What you dislike in another, take care to correct in yourself.
4 Further information is required to determine the correct answer in any given instance.
5 I must correct some points of detail in your article on Barcelona.
6 You cannot automatically assume that everything your teacher says is correct.
7 Glasses can correct most errors in your vision.
8 Yes, that's basically correct.
9 Please check that these details are correct.
10 Please check over the speech draft and correct the mistakes, if any.
11 Your clear reasoning is quite correct.
12 It's not correct to describe them as 'students'.
13 Everything in her testomany was correct down to the smallest detail.
14 All of these factor into the correct placement of the acupuncture needles.
15 Generally, I think the policy of non-intervention is the correct one.