Wondering how to use Wrong in a sentence? Below are 20 example sentences from real English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as mistaken or false.
Wrong in a sentence
Related words
Wrong meaning
- Incorrect or untrue.
- Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
- Immoral, not good, bad.
Synonyms of Wrong
Example sentences (20)
The lesson to process here is not that it is wrong, but only wrong for certain groups, again punch up and not down.
Moreover, “ethics” or “appearances” are absolutely the wrong words for what is currently going wrong at the court.
Listening to many of his colleagues drowning at that decision shows that it was a wrong step in the wrong direction.
She starts to fear something is wrong with her daughter but also that there’s something terrifyingly wrong with her.
An age-old ethics question is whether doing the right thing for the wrong reason still makes your actions wrong.
Whoever says protests aren’t beneficial are watching the wrong news station or reading the wrong Facebook post.
Companies that get it wrong could inadvertently release confidential personal information to the wrong person.
Nothing wrong with that, but if he’s uninterested in policy then he’s barking up the wrong tree ambition-wise.
The old men who carry on some "You're Wrong and here's why/ No You're wrong and here's why" week after week are hysterical.
So when you get a question wrong, you can at least take comfort in seeing the many, many wrong answers that came before you.
The spacecraft’s clock was set to the wrong time, making Starliner think it was in the wrong location.
Another mistake I often see first-time interviewers make is asking the wrong types of questions or asking them in the wrong way.
Al-Qurashi has always maintained that he was arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
If you’re a Democrat and can’t see what’s wrong this, then something’s wrong with your moral compass.
A wrong-way crash involving three cars in Wake Forest led to a man's death and charges for a woman driving in the wrong direction.
Maybe a wrong part was installed in the car, maybe the brake system was filled with a wrong fluid.
So, to me, it’s not about what’s right and wrong in a court of law, it’s what we have right and wrong about how we treat each other.
He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time after following Harry through a portkey while competing in the Triwizard Tournament.
However, a mutation in the wrong gene in the wrong cell can lead to the cells becoming cancerous.
The worst deal however falls upon the educated middle class who are left wondering what went wrong and how should we right this wrong.
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×
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