How to Use wrong in a Sentence

wrong

1 of 4 noun

• The chairman cracks down on the bad guys and rights all the wrongs.
  — Mohamed El Aassar, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
• Investors will need to be right, and the Fed wrong, about what the Fed will do next year.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 31 July 2022
• Not the wrong done to Hazel Scott, the famous Black pianist, who was barred from the Hall in 1945.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
• Their slogan might have been: The strong can do no wrong.
  — Spencer Case, National Review, 15 Sep. 2022
• Since when is the department charged with righting the wrongs of the past?
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• The list of impossible rights and wrongs goes on and on.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2024
• On the verge of correcting some wrongs that’ve jammed them in the last two weeks, at least.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2023
• Bringing Duvall back to the Bay would right a long-ago wrong.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
• How to go about sorting right from wrong won’t have changed.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 11 Mar. 2024
• For so many Black New Yorkers this is a historic step to help right the wrongs of the past.
  — Natalie Duddridge, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023
• My mix was crude, to say the least, but even the Beatles got stereo wrong at first.
  — Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2022
• There is also the matter of Putin getting the West wrong.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022
• The hit going wrong is only the first bad thing that happens to them.
  — Bob Sassone, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2022
• Pedantry would be saying that Jonathon spells his name wrong.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• Looking at past races that the polls got wrong tells us which races this year might still be in play.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 7 Nov. 2022
• Two wrongs may not make a right, but what if your wrongs could become right?
  — Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
• Ponyboy and his friends encounter loss and grief and learn right from wrong.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
• Bug bites seem to be the universe’s way of slapping us on the wrist for our trivial wrongs.
  — Loren Savini, Allure, 7 Aug. 2023
• The Patriots couldn’t do right, the Bengals could do no wrong.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 24 Dec. 2022
• He and co-founder Rob Sevier are thrilled to help right that wrong.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2022
• Because there’s something very f—ing wrong with the butt right now.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2024
• And then the fantasist in me later will right the wrongs, color in my past.
  — Miriam Katz, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• China, meanwhile, accused the U.S. of being in the wrong.
  — Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2022
• Unequal treatment of two equal wrongs is a third wrong.
  — Alan M. Dershowitz, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
• That would mean Peña did not know right from wrong or couldn’t conform to the law, Polumbaum said.
  — Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
• With this new perspective came progressive steps to right the wrongs of the past.
  — Marcus Collins, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• The truth is, that as of today, with the sole exception of Netflix, the studios have yet to agree to right this wrong.
  — Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, Variety, 5 Aug. 2022
• The desire to right past wrongs animates many of the characters in our 10 picks for this month.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
• There are also forgiving love songs for the many men who did her wrong.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
• And lord knows the people in power, the ones who should be righting their own wrongs, won’t do so without a fight.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023

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wrong

2 of 4 adjective

• These pages are in the wrong order.
• You're wrong; the answer is six.
• I got four answers wrong on the test.
• I don't want you to get the wrong impression of him.
• Are my actions sending the wrong message?
• You like baseball, or am I wrong?
• Am I wrong in thinking that she should never have gone?
• Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you should start exercising.
• He thinks I can't win, but I'm going to prove him wrong.
• I think her birthday is May 11th, but I could be wrong.
• So which will emerge as the wrong shoe to rule them all for fall 2023?
  — Laura Hawkins, Vogue, 19 July 2023
• The other is that something is wrong with the efforts to date the site.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• Eating the wrong food, or too much of the right one, can cause a stomachache.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2024
• There were so many ways to attack it, and none of them was wrong.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
• But picking the wrong one could do more harm than good.
  — Jon Bitner, wsj.com, 21 Sep. 2023
• That would be the wrong lesson from the show, if there are any lessons at all to be gleaned from it.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
• As for above the waist, a collared dress shirt is never the wrong answer.
  — Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 5 Sep. 2023
• More than four hours in, Carr knew something was wrong.
  — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 9 Aug. 2023
• The officer then grips his arm again and asks what is wrong.
  — Cameron MacDonald, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
• Apple has since responded to the lawsuit saying the suit is wrong in the facts and the law.
  — Oscar Gonzalez / Gizmodo, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2024
• Whether Lee was right or wrong, the film implies, Perry won.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2023
• The Blossom alum's not wrong in finding things to be grateful for.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 11 Aug. 2023
• What's wrong is the way people try to come and attack us as Black women.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 5 Apr. 2023
• Not that there’s anything wrong with degrees, of course.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
• The risk of not doing so is paying your money but making the wrong choice.
  — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• But the driver sensed something wrong and brought him to the gendarmerie police.
  — Nancy Ing, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
• But it’s being seduced by the wrong thing if the numbers are guiding you.
  — Vulture, 4 Oct. 2023
• And, if anything goes wrong, well, that just might be a bonus in the hands of such a skilled, in-the-moment musician.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2023
• At the end of the film, Sebastián seems to recognize that his beliefs about the monster are wrong.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 19 July 2023
• But his economic plan for getting them may be the wrong one.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2023

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wrong

3 of 4 adverb

• Her name was spelled wrong on the form.
• I entered the numbers wrong.
• I can't get this to work; could you show me what I did wrong?
• But Arop stepped wrong in warmups and felt a twinge in his groin.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
• What in the world—the business world, that is—went wrong last New Year’s Eve?
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 27 May 2022
• There’s so many things that could go wrong, again and again and again.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2022
• Where do the Rams go from here, and how did things go so wrong so fast?
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
• For all the progress, though, there are still any number of ways for things to go wrong.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Wired, 1 Feb. 2022
• Yes, there are a lot of things that could go wrong this summer.
  — Christopher Elliott, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
• Here's a step-by-step breakdown of what did go wrong here.
  — Daniel Dale, CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
• Flooding is just one of the most common things that can go wrong in a home.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
• For the Bulls to become a poor offensive team, a lot of things have to go wrong at the same time.
  — Morten Jensen, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• One dives into what the outcome looks like if things go wrong.
  — Dustin Snyder, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
• And there’s so much that can go wrong so fast on those live broadcasts like that, when there’s 40 bands in a row.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 22 Jan. 2022
• However, there are some gifts that are hard to go wrong with.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 2 Feb. 2023
• And above all, no central banks riding to the rescue if things go wrong.
  — Jan-Patrick Barnert, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2022
• What could go wrong in the quaint suburbs of Westfield, New Jersey?
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 7 Oct. 2022
• If one cookie comes out wrong, the ones surrounding it are just as good.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2021
• Since launching the brand in 2017, following their own rhythm has not steered them wrong yet.
  — Greg Emmanuel, Essence, 3 Jan. 2022
• Its name is short-hand for a phrase oft-heard when something goes wrong in the military.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2022
• However, from there, there was little that the Wolf Pack did wrong.
  — Ramon Scott, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2022
• Or at Google’s assumption his own name must be spelled wrong.
  — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2022
• However, there are some brands that are hard to go wrong with -- Kendra Scott being one of those.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 16 Apr. 2023
• But much can go wrong during a long and bumpy transition.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2021
• And so the industry is waiting to see whether Cameron will prove his critics wrong yet again.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• The Apple Watch saves lives with features that can alert the user or others when things go wrong.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 July 2021
• An open-minded approach is required, says Lyons; there are more ways for such a project to go wrong than right.
  — Victoria Turk, Wired, 19 July 2022
• Who’s paying attention to what’s going wrong at the time.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2022
• The moment that would prove every team who failed to recognize his talent along the way wrong.
  — Jayna Bardahl, The Enquirer, 23 Aug. 2021
• Mercer knows a lot will go wrong in the opening weekend against Clemson.
  — Matt Cohen, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Feb. 2022

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wrong

4 of 4 verb

• As the wronged party, you have the right to sue for damages.
• We should forgive those who have wronged us.
• The person who wronged you lives rent-free in your brain.
  — Stephanie Dolgoff, Good Housekeeping, 19 June 2023
• This wouldn’t be the first time Aguilera called out a man who wronged her in one of her songs.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Who hasn’t wanted to set the story straight when they’ve been wronged?
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2018
• How can the world do right by a nation it’s so often wronged?
  — Marlene L. Daut, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
• But Padrao is still the cast standout as Rosaura, who’s in pursuit of a man who has wronged her.
  — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2019
• That's only for preteens and adults who have wronged you.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 27 Apr. 2018
• The theme is liberation — for those wronged and for those to blame.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
• The good news: Some consumers who felt they were wronged ended up fighting the bill.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 6 June 2018
• A person scorned, harboring ill-will to those who have wronged her, not afraid to go for the throat.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 28 Aug. 2017
• One is, does anybody feel they were wronged as a team by Houston?
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 19 Feb. 2020
• Osthoff isn’t the only one who says he was wronged by Rep. Santos.
  — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 10 Mar. 2023
• The new right laps up young and not-so-young men who feel wronged and misunderstood.
  — Laurie Penny, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2018
• More: Black's proved plenty of those doubters wrong already.
  — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2017
• But John had wanted to be wronged back, to be asked to explain himself in a long monologue.
  — Camille Bordas, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• Aren't half of her songs just pointing a finger at someone who has wronged her?
  — Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 27 Aug. 2017
• Nor is there any way of knowing today which paragraph is right and who is wronged.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 June 2018
• Rapinoe and all public figures should take their fight to those who wronged them, not to those who gave them that right.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 9 July 2019
• After a stint in jail for the assault, the young man seeks revenge, and opens a restaurant to rival the people who wronged him.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
• Lewandowski is now trying to fight back, claiming he's been wronged by the media.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 20 June 2018
• The girls begin casting spells to fulfill their teenage desires and get back at those who’ve wronged them.
  — Claudia Guthrie, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
• So what is a passenger who feels they’re being wronged to do?
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, PEOPLE.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• There were people around, Taylor thought, people to hear about how she’d been wronged.
  — Jason Pohl, ProPublica, 5 Nov. 2019
• And so if it was felt that George was wronged on the original track listing, then Paul and Sean and Ringo would make damn sure it’s made right.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
• But the bank has wronged its customers time and time again and has consistently managed to come out ahead.
  — Emily Stewart, Vox, 21 Apr. 2018
• In other words, to extent Schilling was wronged, the legal process could be used to remedy it.
  — Richard Deitsch, SI.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• Matthew 18, the scripture that prescribes how to reconcile with someone who has wronged you, was pushed in his face.
  — USA Today, 13 Feb. 2020
• The only hope for buyers who feel they've been wronged by the super mafia is to get evidence that a super has snitched.
  — Tom Acitelli, Town & Country, 3 Sep. 2013
• Jurgen Klopp, on the other hand, was left fuming and clearly felt that his side had been wronged.
  — SI.com, 19 Feb. 2018

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