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Example sentences for "wrong"

Lexicographically close words:
writtin; writyng; wrocht; wroght; wroghte; wrongdoer; wrongdoers; wrongdoing; wronge; wronged
  1. Perhaps it is a wrong for us to dwell on these worldly details, but after all his hand is really beautiful.

  2. I believe it is wrong even to think of it.

  3. Cruel one, you ought to say, and you would not be wrong if I were to let you fall ill.

  4. Not only to give poor men meat and drink: but to forgive them that do thee wrong and pray for them: and inform them who are at the point to perish what they shall do.

  5. In approaching it from the south, and particularly from Horicon, one is apt to form a wrong opinion of its picturesque features; but you cannot pass through it without being lavish in its praise.

  6. Several inches of the blade entered, but in the wrong place.

  7. Scouts are sent out; the Amazons recognize that they are on a wrong track; and the column forms again.

  8. A piece of advice to beginners: you will go wrong a thousand times for once that you are right if, when anxious to obtain a premature sight of the probable habits of an insect, you take mimesis as your guide.

  9. Condemn your widow to live in a convent; I will obey you; I will do anything, anything that you bid me, to expiate the wrong I have done you, if that so the children may be happy!

  10. It is strongly to his interest--' I bit my lips, feeling that I had gone the wrong way to work.

  11. My name is Hendrick Hudson, and a right good skipper was I; and my name will last to the world's end, in spite of all the wrong I did.

  12. He was very much ashamed of himself, and felt all the naughtier; as little boys do when they have done wrong and won't say so.

  13. I meant to go to the Chesapeake, and I'm afraid I've got wrong somehow.

  14. But she was wrong there; for the stone was not left all alone: and the next time that Tom goes by it, he will see a sight worth seeing.

  15. There is something wrong with you, I am sure, more serious than your injured side.

  16. When the moose charged, something went wrong with that snow-shoe, and before I could do anything the brute was upon me.

  17. I'm afraid in my wars it's generally been what your husband would consider the wrong side,' said Maule with a laugh.

  18. In her hurried rearrangement of the wind-scattered sheets she had put these into the wrong bundle.

  19. But the practical thing for a traveler who is uncertain of his path is not to proceed with the utmost rapidity in the wrong direction: it is to consider how to find the right one.

  20. The wrong that pains my soul below I dare not throne above; I know not of His hate,--I know His goodness and His love.

  21. We get back our mete as we measure-- We cannot do wrong and feel right, Nor can we give pain and gain pleasure, For justice avenges each slight.

  22. Opportunity They do me wrong who say I come no more When once I knock and fail to find you in; For every day I stand outside your door And bid you wake and rise to fight and win.

  23. You Moon, have you done something wrong in heaven, That God has hidden your face?

  24. I see the wrong that round me lies, I feel the guilt within; I hear, with groan and travail-cries, The world confess its sin.

  25. They tell this curious thing, besides, of the patient, plodding weaver: He works on the wrong side evermore, but works for the right side ever.

  26. It was agreed that whichever of the two was proved to be wrong should serve the other.

  27. I once had an office clerk afflicted in this way, and his colleagues refused to sit in the same room with him, because their accounts always went wrong when he looked in their direction.

  28. He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.

  29. It is at variance with the self-sustaining theory, and there is something wrong where it is wanted.

  30. Will say that there is a right and a wrong way to set the deadfall.

  31. Hollingsworth turned on him the crude countenance that looked like the wrong side of a more finished face.

  32. There were moments when, in the strange dislocation of his view, the wrong he had done her seemed a tie between them.

  33. He had turned to the wrong page; and suddenly a line of black characters leapt out at him as from an ambush.

  34. One can make, I mean, a wrong the door to other wrongs or an impassable wall against them.

  35. Being a Judge, 'tis natural and wrong That you should villify the public press-- Save while you are a candidate.

  36. There's something, too, gone wrong with my inside, And my periphery's not what it was.

  37. Their liaisons were clear, uncomplicated by the violent mental drum-taps that set the passions marching so often at a quickstep in the wrong direction.

  38. Preaching often drives one wrong out of sheer 'cussedness,' I suppose.

  39. If you get this gospel wrong you may become conceited, and fancy yourself possessed of a power which you haven't a notion of.

  40. She was naturally a pretty girl, but was growing rapidly haggard, and was badly made up, rouged in wrong places consumptively, powdered everywhere disastrously.

  41. Doesn't that perhaps show that mine was, after all, the wrong nature?

  42. A gospel gone wrong in a mind is dangerous, and worse than no gospel at all.

  43. The ones that we ordered haven't shown up yet, and if anything goes wrong with this one, we are hurt and hurt bad.

  44. So he made up his mind to take him into his confidence in a limited way, and so remarked: "Yes, my father does know that there is something wrong at the camp, but he cannot put his finger on the spot where the trouble is.

  45. Yantiwau was interested in pictures; he would gaze with wondering eyes at photos, or views of other lands, but he looked at them the wrong side up, as they all invariably do.

  46. Notwithstanding such terrible savagery, however, the Indian has ideas of right and wrong that put Christian civilization to shame.

  47. The same priest, however, Ricardo Gonzales by name, thought it no wrong to have seventeen children to various mothers, and his daughters were leaders in society.

  48. The republic seems well governed, but, as in all Spanish-American countries, the ideas of right and wrong are strange.

  49. The Church has taught lies and uncleanness, and been the bulwark of injustice and wrong for 300 years.

  50. It is nothing less than the locating, after more than a hundred years of recriminations and wrong explanations, of the modern European evil; the finding of the fountain from which poison has flowed upon all the nations of the earth.

  51. In mere fact, the Germanic power has been wrong about Servia, wrong about Russia, wrong about Belgium, wrong about England, wrong about Italy.

  52. So far as I can follow it, it seems to amount to saying "It is very wrong that you should be superior to me, because I am superior to you.

  53. But there was a reason for its being wrong everywhere; and of that root reason, which has moved half the world against it, I shall speak later in this series.

  54. All things that you should use to do me wrong Deny their office; only you do lack That mercy which fierce fire and iron extends, Creatures of note for mercy-lacking uses.

  55. You wrong me every way, you wrong me, Brutus.

  56. You wrong me every way, you wrong me, Brutus; I said an elder soldier, not a better.

  57. See; how long and pale his face has grown since his death: he never was handsome; and death has improved him very much the wrong way.

  58. But I think it would be wrong for me to commit myself to something I do not understand.

  59. The man with whom I had talked might be wrong on some point.

  60. The South is right in her grand desire and end; she is wrong in her present and momentary experiment to attain that end.

  61. Then must I conclude that the North, believing itself right, is wrong in warring upon the South?

  62. Well, he is wrong for once; I am as well as I ever was in my life.

  63. So also the North is right in her desire, and wrong in her efforts.

  64. If they thought me a Confederate, very likely they thought I was trying to desert, and feeling my way through fear of falling into the hands of the wrong people.

  65. How could a Federal know the road so well that he had gone over it at full speed, never hesitating, never deflecting into a wrong course?

  66. No; if they are wrong, they are not wrong intentionally.

  67. That brings up the question whether it is a citizen's duty to serve his country in a wrong cause, and you have already said that a man should obey her laws or else renounce his citizenship.

  68. They were right to run at this moment, and he was wrong in trying to form on the naked slope.

  69. General Lee heard of Sedgwick's movement just at the wrong time I dare say.

  70. I should say that would be a very serious step to take, perhaps a dangerous step, perhaps a wrong step," said I.

  71. Khayme's tent, after having been directed wrong more than once.

  72. Millions of men are joined together to perpetrate wrong while believing that they are right?

  73. Of course they are both wrong in the acts of which we are speaking; but in regard to the principles upon which they seem to differ, they are right, and these are what I wish to speak of.

  74. And the Tom Cat, whom she called Sonnie, could arch his back and purr, he could even give out sparks; but for that one had to stroke his fur the wrong way.

  75. She had had no more sense than to go out in the brilliant sunshine, and something had gone wrong inside her head.

  76. You have been very wicked, but I have done no more than warn you that you were doing wrong and becoming the very sort of man your father, the good King, wanted you NOT to be.

  77. The first fairy godmother was quite wrong about the Prince of the Black Heart!

  78. Ever since he could remember, things had gone wrong with him.

  79. It now really seemed to him as if everything had gone wrong with the world, especially his own insides.

  80. He looked out to sea, and saw the island, but nowhere could he see the water-steeds, and he began to fear he must have taken a wrong course in the night, and that the island before him was not the one he was in search of.

  81. When a fairy does something wrong she loses her power.

  82. By telling a falsehood to cover a wrong you have only made bad matters worse.

  83. Glasgow lay on the wrong side of the island for participating in the east country or continental trade, by which the trifling commerce as yet possessed by Scotland chiefly supported itself.


  84. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrong" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aberrant; aberration; abnormal; abnormality; abominable; abomination; abroad; abuse; abusive; adrift; afflict; amiss; apocryphal; arrant; astray; atrocious; atrocity; awry; bad; badly; bane; base; baseless; bewitch; black; blameworthy; blight; breach; bum; careless; censurable; cheap; corrupt; corruption; crime; criminal; crooked; crucify; curse; damage; damnable; dark; debt; deceptive; defective; defile; delinquency; delinquent; delusion; delusive; deprave; dereliction; despoil; destroy; destruction; detraction; detriment; disadvantage; disgrace; disgraceful; disservice; distorted; distortion; distress; doom; enormity; envenom; errant; erroneous; error; evil; execrable; failure; fallacious; fallacy; false; falsely; falseness; falsity; fanciful; fault; faulty; felonious; felony; flagrant; flaw; flawed; foul; futile; genocide; grievance; guilty; harass; harm; havoc; heinous; heresy; heretical; heterodox; hurt; ignominious; ill; illegal; illegality; illicit; illogical; illusion; illusory; immoral; impair; impolitic; imposition; improper; improperly; impropriety; imprudent; inaccurate; inadvisable; inappropriate; inappropriateness; inapt; inauspicious; incongruous; inconvenient; incorrect; indecorous; indecorum; indignity; indiscretion; inept; inequitable; inexact; inexpedient; infamous; infamy; infect; infection; infelicitous; inferior; infraction; iniquitous; iniquity; injure; injury; injustice; inopportune; intrusive; invalid; irrelevant; jinx; knavery; knavish; lapse; late; low; lying; malevolent; malfeasance; maltreat; menace; mendacious; misapplication; mischief; misconstruction; misdeed; misdemeanor; misguided; misinterpretation; misjudgment; misleading; mistaken; mistreat; molest; monstrous; naughty; nefarious; off; offence; offense; omission; out; outrage; peccant; persecute; perverse; perversion; perverted; place; poison; pollute; pollution; prejudice; premature; pseudo; punk; rank; rape; regrettable; reprehensible; reprobate; rotten; sacrilegious; savage; scandal; scandalous; scathe; shame; shameful; shameless; sin; sinful; sinister; slip; specious; straying; taint; tasteless; terrible; threaten; torment; tort; torture; toxin; transgression; trespass; trip; turn; unacceptable; unbalanced; unbefitting; undeserved; undesirable; undue; unequal; uneven; unfavorable; unfavorably; unfit; unforgivable; unfortunate; unhandy; unhappy; unlawful; unlawfulness; unlucky; unmerited; unorthodox; unorthodoxy; unpardonable; unpropitious; unproved; unready; unrighteous; unripe; unsatisfactory; unseasonable; unseemly; unskillful; unsound; unspeakable; unsuitability; unsuitable; untimely; untoward; untrue; untruthful; unwise; unworthy; venom; vexation; vice; vicious; vile; villainous; villainy; violate; violation; wicked; wickedness; wide; woe; worry; wound; wrong; wrongdoing; wrongful


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    wrong about; wrong done; wrong side; wrong thing