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Example sentences for "something wrong"

  • Still there must be something wrong in the character of the uncle per se, or all history would not agree that nepotism is such a dreadful thing.

  • Perhaps there is something wrong in ourselves when we hear the complaint so often that men are pursued by disaster instead of being pursued by happiness.

  • There must be something wrong in these schemes, these great operations that made so many confiding people suffer.

  • We believe in education; but there must be something wrong in an education that sets so many people at odds with the facts of life, and, above all, does not furnish them with any protection against the wildest illusions.

  • She thought, as so many women have thought, that there must be something wrong in a system that made her husband spend all his strength laboring to make money so much of which was paid, in one form or another, to this black incubus.

  • We feel that there is something wrong somewhere, even though we may be at a loss to know what it is.

  • There may be something wrong, however, and it behooves us to be on our guard.

  • You began to question yourself, thinking that surely there must be something wrong.

  • It means that there is something wrong," answered Rupert.

  • The "something wrong," of which Ellen had spoken, was this.

  • But what if they were to want me to do something wrong?

  • I know they suspect there's something wrong, and they have gone down to watch the drain, or to meet Mr Marston.

  • Why, old Hicky thinks now that there's something wrong.

  • Why, there is something wrong, then, my boys!

  • There is something wrong," she said--"and my uncle is hiding it from me.

  • Something wrong at the island, sir," reported one of the watch.

  • She thought there might be something wrong in this, but did not utter any objection.

  • There's something wrong at your house--requiring your return.

  • There is something wrong in all this," she mused.

  • There is something wrong," she exclaimed.

  • Something wrong," remarked Mr. Alexander, and they moved quickly to the hut.

  • Pain is an alarm bell for the physical nature to point to something wrong there, and this sense of evil, this shrinking from God regarded as the judge, is the alarm bell in the spiritual nature to warn of something wrong there.

  • Just as pain is a danger signal, pointing to mischief at work on the body, so failure in achieving the results of Christian service is, for the most part, an indication of something wrong in method or spirit.

  • They are moving the furniture against it, and the handle won't turn; he says there must be something wrong there.

  • What occasion is there to say that, as if anyone could not see there was something wrong.

  • The girl wouldn't have given us that warning unless there had been something wrong, and I expect that house was the headquarters of one of these gangs.

  • If we act so that we cannot be open and honest about our dealings with people, then there must be something wrong.

  • Then she slipped a pair of spectacles out of her pocket, and put them on, after glancing round apprehensively as if she were going to do something wrong.

  • She is sensitive, and you have made her feel there is something wrong.

  • It's all too neat and correct, Monsieur, and there's something wrong.

  • I think there must be something wrong in the grate somehow, for the fire always will go out.

  • She might go to Thurston's Crag now as often as she could beguile Sigismund thitherward, and that haunting sense of something wrong would no longer perplex her in the midst of her unutterable joy.

  • There must be something wrong; it must be some very important business that brings any one to this place to-night.

  • I'm glad I met you, sir, for I have been a great deal in the prison lately, and I can't help thinking there is something wrong.

  • Then there is something wrong," cried the tailor, aghast.

  • You're right, neighbour, there is something wrong.

  • Thickens going to marry skinny Heathery on the sly; or something wrong?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "something wrong" 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:
    asked himself; between each; general education; letter sent; little husband; make fire; minute particles; morrow afternoon; skins dyed; something akin; something better; something between; something doing; something done; something else; something external; something for; something good; something real; something seemed; something similar; something which; something wrong; theological virtue; though thou; wicked person