How to Use incorrect in a Sentence

incorrect

adjective

• The story in the newspaper is incorrect.
• The restaurant considers jeans and T-shirts incorrect attire for dinner.
• The doctor's diagnosis was incorrect.
• An incorrect consent form and the failure to put a mark on the correct body part led to the mistake.
  — Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• Teachers have complained that some of the sounds for the letters are incorrect.
  — Stephanie Claytor, Parents, 20 Nov. 2023
• Instead, Taneja asked a colleague to sign her name with the incorrect date as well.
  — Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Feb. 2024
• The duo soon learn that the penalty for an incorrect answer is death: A man in a black mask, wielding a crossbow, kills Shawn.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• But at least in some cases that appeared to be incorrect.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
• So, the state likes to present it as … clown wig fibers, but that's factually incorrect.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2023
• Not all notices are due to incorrect pay, the department said.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2023
• However, the reader who emailed the U-T last week pointed out that was incorrect.
  — Adrian Vore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
• The method of appointing the chair and vice chair of the Literacy Task Force was initially incorrect.
  — Tcrain, al, 7 June 2023
• In fact, some of the statements about open-border policies and migrant returns are incorrect.
  — Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• The message used an incorrect name for her neighborhood.
  — Susannah George, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• The incorrect label was created by, and applied to, their product by Stew Leonard's.
  — Natalie Duddridge, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2024
• But bear in mind that so many products warn against incorrect use—like blow dryers, garbage bags, and laundry detergent, to name a quick few.
  — Alexis Berger, SELF, 20 Mar. 2024
• These claims are incorrect and do not align with the summit's annual focus.
  — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
• In each clip, the human or robot would look at a familiar or new object on a table in front of them and give it a correct or incorrect name.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
• There are incorrect calls in several NBA games, and the league can’t have a situation where teams are filing protests night after the game.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• Oh, and until now, most of us have probably been using the can opener the same way, which is supposedly incorrect.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2024
• In Maimonides’ view, saying that God has a body is not just incorrect but blasphemous and idolatrous.
  — Randy L. Friedman, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
• Editor's note: An earlier version of this story gave an incorrect amount for how much the city would be receiving over the next 18 years.
  — Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 13 July 2023
• There were two incorrect guesses of Green Bay and one of Minneapolis.
  — Jay Gabler, Twin Cities, 25 Jan. 2024
• So to say this is about the current Court is incorrect given today's Court did not exist 11 years ago when Sen. Durbin first started speaking out about this issue.
  — Joe Schoffstall, Fox News, 4 May 2023
• If that estimate is wildly incorrect, the IRS may charge a penalty and interest.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2023
• But there is *a lot* of misunderstanding and incorrect info out there surrounding how to lose arm fat.
  — Ashley Mateo, Women's Health, 8 Apr. 2023
• An earlier version of this article had the incorrect UK price.
  — Dan Seifert, The Verge, 25 Apr. 2023
• The Times contacted the driver, who said that Mr. Andrus’s account was incorrect but would not elaborate.
  — James B. Stewart, New York Times, 25 May 2023
• But for five beans or more, his quick estimations were often incorrect.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
• Create four answers: The correct one and three others that are plausible but incorrect.
  — Chris Wilson, Time, 7 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024