WRONG in a Sentence
Learn WRONG 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.
390 example sentences for WRONG, such as:
1. OK, you win, I'll admit I was wrong.
2. I admit my mistake/that I was wrong.
3. She was reluctant to admit she was wrong.
4. She held her deck chair at the wrong angle.
5. Somebody goofed and entered the wrong amount.
2. I admit my mistake/that I was wrong.
3. She was reluctant to admit she was wrong.
4. She held her deck chair at the wrong angle.
5. Somebody goofed and entered the wrong amount.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of WRONG
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wrong
ad. in an inaccurate manner
v. treat unjustly; do wrong to
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 As to poor Lestrade's discovery it was simply a blind intended to put the police upon a wrong track, by suggesting Socialism and secret societies.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2 It was simply a ruse to divert inquiry into a wrong channel.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
3 I was knocked all in a heap therefore at seeing a light in the window, and I suspected as something was wrong.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
4 The fun of it is," he cried, "that that fool Lestrade, who thinks himself so smart, has gone off upon the wrong track altogether.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
5 What amuses me is to think of Lestrade, who had started off upon the wrong scent.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
6 I have made my case out, and it seems I was wrong.
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
7 Lestrade went after his man, Stangerson, and it appears that he was wrong too.
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
8 Convinced that he had taken the wrong turn, he tried another, but with the same result.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
9 When I had him fairly inside my cab, my heart jumped so with joy that I feared lest at this last moment my aneurism might go wrong.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
10 Perhaps it was some mischievous idea of setting the police upon a wrong track, for I felt light-hearted and cheerful.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
11 It must have been a private wrong, and not a political one, which called for such a methodical revenge.
12 Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball.
13 But a few days later Muriel, reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong.
14 She held her deck chair at the wrong angle.
15 It was the noise a machine makes when something has gone wrong.
Example Sentence: (180 in 13 pages)
1 A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.
2 Sometimes you are not without effort, but chose the wrong direction; sometimes, success is not your ability, but by the power of others.
3 He doesn't have the humility to admit when he's wrong.
4 She was reluctant to admit she was wrong.
5 In the face of the new evidence he had to climb down and admit he had been wrong.
6 He was too stubborn to admit that he was wrong.
7 It takes strength of character to admit you are wrong.
8 I admit now that I was wrong, and I am ready to acknowledge it in front of everyone.
9 I admit my mistake/that I was wrong.
10 I told him that he should be man enough to admit he had done wrong.
11 OK, you win, I'll admit I was wrong.
12 Well, he does admit it when he's wrong, I'll say that much for him.
13 The taxi driver was obviously in the wrong in going ahead against the red light.
14 He took an almost gleeful delight in showing how wrong they can be.
15 Somebody goofed and entered the wrong amount.