How to Use wrong in a Sentence

wrong

1 of 4 noun

• So did two wrongs make a right?
  — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 16 June 2026
• Well, maybe the book’s wrong, then!
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Feb. 2026
• This is wrong on the facts and wrong on the law.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
• Which just goes to show three wrongs don’t make a right.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
• Which just goes to show three wrongs don’t make a right.
  — Mark Barabak, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
• Two wrongs will never make a right.
  — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
• Getting all three wrong at once is not.
  — Song Bac Toh, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• The streamer got that one wrong.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 June 2026
• There’s a huge cost to getting this wrong.
  — Daren Smith, IndieWire, 24 June 2026
• And the cost of getting this wrong is not small.
  — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
• Why does the mistress get to do wrong and flaunt it?
  — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 30 May 2026
• Here's what the wrong fits tend to have in common.
  — Mateusz Mucha, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• The chairman cracks down on the bad guys and rights all the wrongs.
  — Mohamed El Aassar, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
• The Knicks merely need to right their wrongs.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026
• Two wrongs may not make a right, but what if your wrongs could become right?
  — Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
• Pedantry would be saying that Jonathon spells his name wrong.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• So how right or wrong is this theory?
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
• The time is now to minimize the wrong.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 11 Sep. 2025
• This is going down the wrong, wrong rabbit hole.
  — Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 30 Jan. 2026
• This does not mean genuine wrongs should be dismissed.
  — Jonathan Alpert, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
• Get the flashing wrong, and water finds the gap and will leak.
  — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
• Because, so far, my instincts are all dead wrong.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 18 June 2026
• Everything that can go wrong goes worse.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 26 June 2026
• Getting that wrong is such a giveaway.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
• But multiple wrongs don’t make a right.
  — Peter Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2025
• Because there’s something very f—ing wrong with the butt right now.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2024
• Ponyboy and his friends encounter loss and grief and learn right from wrong.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
• What did Mark Church do wrong in this office?
  — Mercury News Editorial Board, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
• There's an absolute right and wrong.
  — Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 12 Nov. 2025
• The moral project of the coming decade will not be to teach machines right from wrong.
  — Nicole Brachetti Peretti, Time, 11 Nov. 2025

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.
• Darnold proved his doubters wrong.
  — Jacob Camenker, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026
• Of course, the claim isn’t wrong.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• There’s so many ways to go wrong.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
• The wrong choice can cut it short.
  — Anna Forsythe, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• One hit in the wrong place and boom!
  — New Atlas, 6 May 2026
• Life has rubbed me the wrong way too.
  — Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2025
• There’s a right way and a wrong way.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
• But are there wrong ways to use it?
  — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
• So if the scheme is sound, what is wrong?
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2026
• This was the wrong place at the wrong time.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
• Turns out, that might have been the wrong choice.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2025
• At one point, a trap even caught the wrong bear.
  — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
• And things are going to go wrong.
  — Annie Heilbrunn, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
• That belief turned out to be wrong.
  — Spencer Harrison, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
• That instinct may not be wrong.
  — Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Apr. 2026
• What is wrong with this defense?
  — Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
• Pressure would be the wrong word.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2026
• How were all the experts so wrong?
  — David Goldman, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
• The kid wasn’t wrong to want a career.
  — Daren Smith, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
• His sandals were on the wrong feet.
  — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025

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?
• From the start, cars were built wrong.
  — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2026
• In the past year, it’s gone wrong twice.
  — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 18 June 2026
• The stakes of getting it wrong go up.
  — Joel Hron, Fortune, 19 May 2026
• There’s so many things that could go wrong, again and again and again.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2022
• So many things can go wrong during a cave dive.
  — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 25 May 2026
• But Arop stepped wrong in warmups and felt a twinge in his groin.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
• Yes, there are a lot of things that could go wrong this summer.
  — Christopher Elliott, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
• Where do the Rams go from here, and how did things go so wrong so fast?
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
• One dives into what the outcome looks like if things go wrong.
  — Dustin Snyder, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
• However, there are some gifts that are hard to go wrong with.
  — Josie Howell | [email protected], al, 2 Feb. 2023
• The swollen finger from catching a sinker wrong.
  — Brittany Ghiroli, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
• For all the progress, though, there are still any number of ways for things to go wrong.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Wired, 1 Feb. 2022
• Flooding is just one of the most common things that can go wrong in a home.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
• But everything seemed to go wrong.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026
• What can go wrong on their blind date in a small Canadian town?
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 1 June 2026
• Or at Google’s assumption his own name must be spelled wrong.
  — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2022
• Nobody did anything wrong here.
  — Jim Defede, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
• And above all, no central banks riding to the rescue if things go wrong.
  — Jan-Patrick Barnert, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2022
• If one cookie comes out wrong, the ones surrounding it are just as good.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2021
• And get annoyed when people spell it wrong anyway?
  — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
• But those that went horribly wrong shared some common traits.
  — Fortune, 29 Oct. 2022
• In their collective view, a lot more had to go wrong before making such a move.
  — Will Sammon, New York Times, 26 June 2026
• This isn’t the first case where Airbnb got its geography wrong.
  — Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
• But when things go wrong at those hubs, travelers feel the consequences.
  — Scott McCartney, WSJ, 21 July 2021
• If things go wrong with Thanksgiving dinner, don't lose your head.
  — Martha Sorren, Woman's Day, 23 Sep. 2022
• Barnes added that if anything wrong occurred, the matter will be addressed.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 28 Sep. 2022
• When people get their interest rate wrong, they get annoyed.
  — Sam Sammane, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026

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.
• They were wronged, they were deeply wronged.
  — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 24 Feb. 2026
• What’s clear is the Heat was wronged in all of this.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
• The healthy part of the supply chain sees itself as wronged.
  — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
• How can the world do right by a nation it’s so often wronged?
  — Marlene L. Daut, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
• Who hasn’t wanted to set the story straight when they’ve been wronged?
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2018
• So what is a passenger who feels they’re being wronged to do?
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, PEOPLE.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• One is, does anybody feel they were wronged as a team by Houston?
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 19 Feb. 2020
• How are they wronged unless and until the contract is breached?
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
• The theme is liberation — for those wronged and for those to blame.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
• Nor is there any way of knowing today which paragraph is right and who is wronged.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 June 2018
• Aren't half of her songs just pointing a finger at someone who has wronged her?
  — Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 27 Aug. 2017
• 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
• The new right laps up young and not-so-young men who feel wronged and misunderstood.
  — Laurie Penny, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2018
• But others disputed that math and felt wronged.
  — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
• The lag between being wronged and being heard can stretch longer than most can endure.
  — Nia Bowers, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
• Some players who say they were wronged by Stake have sought out Nardy Cramm.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Bloomberg, 27 Feb. 2026
• Lewandowski is now trying to fight back, claiming he's been wronged by the media.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 20 June 2018
• On occasion, Scorpios have vengeance to seek against those who have wronged them.
  — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
• 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
• For now, the husband still feels wronged, but his wife isn’t apologizing.
  — Ashley Vega, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• There were people around, Taylor thought, people to hear about how she’d been wronged.
  — Jason Pohl, ProPublica, 5 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Until then, much could wrong, driving the economy off the proverbial rails.
  — Mark Zandi For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 21 Oct. 2020
• Just a lot — the uncertainty, the feeling that you're being wronged.
  — Brian Unger, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
• Francis then sounded off on the critics and naysayers who have seemingly lined up to wrong him.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026