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.
• In jest or not, that is incorrect.
  — Laura Doan, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
• Both of these claims are incorrect.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 1 June 2026
• That turned out to be incorrect.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
• Estes said the detail about a ride home was incorrect.
  — Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2025
• That incorrect claim is based on a partial truth.
  — Andrew Kolodny, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
• In my view, this is largely incorrect.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
• Of course, our viewpoint may be incorrect.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• So the log will be incorrect; there’ll be errors in the storm data.
  — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2025
• So to say Palmer is one of these things more than the other would be incorrect.
  — WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
• There are some widely held, but incorrect views about the program as well.
  — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 5 July 2025
• They also may have been charged incorrect fees and other costs.
  — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 20 Jan. 2023
• That incorrect thesis has become a thing in the past.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 19 May 2026
• The crypto firm is far from the last to have sent out entirely incorrect new alerts.
  — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 9 July 2026
• Of course, this was incorrect and Joey ended up not winning the round.
  — Rebecca Norris, Good Housekeeping, 9 Nov. 2021
• The judge told the jury no, but the appeals court said that answer was incorrect.
  — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
• As with many arguments, when the premise is incorrect, what follows cannot be true.
  — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2026
• That’s leading to long lines and incorrect pickup times on the mobile app.
  — Anne D’innocenzio and Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
• Teachers have complained that some of the sounds for the letters are incorrect.
  — Stephanie Claytor, Parents, 20 Nov. 2023
• The state’s attorneys said that too was incorrect.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
• Then there's that name—and the incorrect suspicion that these dresses are just for kids.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 May 2022
• And the claim of widespread abuse of sheep during shearing is incorrect.
  — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
• Reds ace Hunter Greene has noticed some of those incorrect calls over the years.
  — Eno Sarris, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
• That assumption could prove to be incorrect, though.
  — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• Not all notices are due to incorrect pay, the department said.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 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
• The bank has said customers were not charged the incorrect attorney’s fees.
  — Deon Roberts, Charlotte Observer, 18 Sep. 2025
• These claims are simply incorrect.
  — Wayne Pesce, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2026