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Example sentences for "not right"

  • But when we look at the Church, we are puzzled by that--which I have mentioned--and by other things.

  • By these and similar arguments it is proved that it is not right to admit any excuse which is contrary to the letter of the law.

  • And you have said: The way of the Lord is not right.

  • For thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

  • And you say: The way of the Lord is not right, I will judge every one of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.

  • And the children of Israel say: The way of the Lord is not right.

  • Hear ye, therefore, O house of Israel: Is it my way that is not right, and are not rather your ways perverse?

  • Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue proceeding.

  • I talk angrily myself often but it's not right to feel hard against anybody.

  • It's not right to your wife and the children.

  • Will you search your purse, and see if I'm not right?

  • Connor, I feel as if the act I am goin' to do is not right.

  • But when death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.

  • And there was a clock over the gate; and one day the doctor was going out, and he took his watch out and looked up, and he said to himself, "That clock is not right.

  • It is a great shame to look down on Ireland, and I think myself it is not right; for the potatoes are growing in the gardens there, and the women milking the cows.

  • Look, Sir," saith the hermit, "Is he not right pitiful?

  • Indeed you are out of the way, aunt, said her kinsman; that is not right, as things stand.

  • And I am the more apprehensive all is not right, because she has now been actually, these two hours, shut up a writing; though she pretended she had given me up all her stores of papers, etc.

  • It is not right of you--" A sudden emotion seized him, and his voice shook.

  • It is not right," said Ben, "it is not right.

  • It is not right," I said, "it is not right.

  • But I have made up my mind that it is not right, and to-morrow morning I shall speak to Dr.

  • I have been her one thought all these years; it is not right, of course,' as Audrey's eyes expressed disapproval at this.

  • It is not right; it is not as it should be.

  • I do not wish to ask what is not right or reasonable, but as I am situated it is a necessity, however advantageous your coming here might be to me.

  • It is not right to do so," he said; "we have to keep the Sunday, and fishing is not keeping the Sunday.

  • She had suspicions that all was not right, and asked the attendant; but he would not tell her.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not right" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    above ground; different soils; gazed down; not all; not come; not far; not fit; not intend; not making significant efforts; not more decidedly the; not necessary; not one; not really; not sufficient; not this; not too; not well; nota bene; notary public; nothing loath; nothing remains; nothing was; noticed that; notwithstanding the; strong points; that nature