Wrong In A Sentence

Definition of Wrong

• Evidently the amateur chauffeur had in his excitement made a turn at the wrong moment.
• Walking to the theatre, they once took the wrong turning and had to ask the way.
• He put on every article of clothing the wrong way, and had to take it off again.
• She was a determined woman, and the remembrance of the wrong done to her son never left her.
• It was very wrong of her sister, who knew she wasn't used to brandy and couldn't stand it.
• Can it be wrong for me too, in my turn, To deceive them, by whom we're all deceiv'd?
• How wrong is this, Or rather what extravagance and madness, To punish him for my offense!
• If several expressions modify the same word, they should be so arranged that no wrong relation is suggested.
• Now, there must surely be something wrong in the professor of any art having so many names and kinds of knowledge.
• I like him, sir, and if there is one thing you will never find me doing it is liking the wrong man.
• He despised lords and ladies, and would none of it; but the lawyer held that it would be doing wrong not to preserve the record.
• I used often however, to offend my father at hunting dinners, by taking the wrong side in politics.
• Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so, is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.
• But, if so, I was wrong in telling you just now that the difficulty which was coming is the greatest of all.
• Big chandeliers standin' straight up from the floor, and all the pictures hangin' wrong side to on the walls.
• Then I broke out with my injured innocence, expecting to make her very sorry that she had punished the wrong one.
• The object of grounding the opposite sides of the keys at the central office is to prevent cross-ringing, that is, ringing the wrong bell.
• In this world the real penalty, the sharp one, the lasting one, never falls otherwise than on the wrong person.
• But we may proceed in the wrong direction, by making it our immediate aim and object to exalt the sovereignty of God.

• You wrong him just as you wrong me.
• The argument implies that we should be wrong in doing so.
• Who bears with wrong and shame.
• I was not aware that there was anything wrong about it.
• To do a wrong to this young innocent.
• There was something wrong with the door.
• He approached the problem in question in a wrong spirit.
• It was a case where nature cropped out in the wrong spot.
• Was anything wrong with his system, he wondered?
• Her occupation was gone, and all was wrong with her world.
• Ah, Parmeno, you wrong me.
• The Right and the Wrong of it All.
• But my companion, Sir, Is confident I would not wrong him.
• They practised discrimination in the wrong quarter altogether.
• I leave you to judge how much he was in the wrong in his opinion.
• The numbering is wrong in three places, but it has not been corrected.
• Nervous; can't be anything wrong with the door.
• He put on his red nightcap, wrong side outwards for good luck.
• As a matter of fact, "everything" was about as all wrong as it could be.
• It will not ring the bell at Station B because of the wrong polarity.
• After all Bertram was right; I had no claim to urge, no wrong to redress.