Wondering how to use Wrong in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as false or criminal.
Wrong in a sentence
Related words
Wrong meaning
- Incorrect or untrue.
- Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
- Immoral, not good, bad.
Synonyms of Wrong
Using Wrong
- The main meaning on this page is: Incorrect or untrue. | Asserting something incorrect or untrue. | Immoral, not good, bad.
- Useful related words include: right, improper, unethical, mistaken.
- Possible Dutch translations are: fout, verkeerd, onjuist.
- In the example corpus, wrong often appears in combinations such as: the wrong, wrong time, wrong place.
Example sentences (20)
Sorry, congressman, wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong.
If you had your dream job, which you could lose just by saying the wrong thing to the wrong person at the wrong time, would it really be that easy for you to risk it just for the sake of being proud of yourself in the moment?
It felt wrong and looked wrong, so therefore it was undoubtedly wrong.
The churchman did well while it lasted, but he became the wrong man in the wrong place among the wrong people.
Repeatedly, he makes the wrong move, says the wrong thing — and is surprised when other people take it the wrong way.
Wrong, wrong and wrong.
Harris got his facts wrong and is suing the wrong man and the wrong store.
Right or wrong Beckham is escalating the situation, very soon management will have to decide whether or not they hired the wrong coach or extended the wrong player.
There are so many things wrong with the U.S.’s gun laws, but one of the biggest things wrong with them is the same thing that’s wrong with all of our laws.
Bf4+ 1-0 Wrong bishop main In an endgame with a bishop, in some cases the bishop is the " wrong bishop ", meaning that it is on the wrong color of square for some purpose (usually promoting a pawn).
Infection is caused by a lack of sterilization, but at that time it was believed to be caused by use of the wrong needle, or needling in the wrong place, or at the wrong time.
Al-Qurashi has always maintained that he was arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Asked on Newstalk Breakfast on Wednesday whether the proposals would mean compulsorily purchasing land from farmers under the nature restoration law, Mr Ryan said: “Completely wrong, completely wrong.
At the opening of his trial on Monday, November 17, prosecutor Helen Chenery said Moore had accused his employer of being “a bully who thinks he knows best, even when he is wrong”, and said he had done nothing wrong.
Bret Bielema is deep enough into his third head coaching stop that you’re not wrong for worrying that the needle has started to move in the wrong direction.
Everything that could have gone wrong at Craven Cottage did go wrong for Gerrard and his team.
Heartbeats are too close together when the electrical signals which cause the beats happen in the wrong part of the heart, or take the wrong pathway through the heart.
He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time after following Harry through a portkey while competing in the Triwizard Tournament.
It is not because we did anything wrong or something went wrong”, Aiyejina explained.
Just because you’re a racialized person or a working-class person or a queer person doesn’t mean you’re incapable of saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing, right?
Common combinations with wrong
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the wrong 183×
- wrong time 43×
- wrong place 35×
- wrong with 23×
- is wrong 20×
- wrong and 17×
- was wrong 16×
- go wrong 13×
- be wrong 11×
- and wrong 9×