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
  • Brown, though, is in the prime of his career and no doubt eager to prove the Celtics wrong for trading him after a decade in Boston.
    — Tim Casey, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Everything that can go wrong goes worse.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 26 June 2026
  • Though Coley is by no means perfect, Sonya is almost so clearly in the wrong that the film doesn’t need her redemption.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 26 June 2026
  • There was also a list of things that had been done wrong in the murder, including not removing the shell casings from the scene, Rouse said.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • There’s a huge cost to getting this wrong.
    — Daren Smith, IndieWire, 24 June 2026

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
  • Critics, and even some supporters, said Soto-Martínez was making his move at the wrong time.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
  • That could always be wrong, of course, but at least that’s the garage talk heading into the weekend.
    — Jess Bryant, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • Maybe that ancestry made Beck the wrong guy to pitch on America’s big day.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 4 July 2026
  • There is still nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what’s right with America.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 4 July 2026
  • Rob-Will is compulsive in his need to do the wrong thing every time.
    — William Earl, Variety, 3 July 2026

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 | [email protected], al, 22 Jan. 2022
  • However, there are some gifts that are hard to go wrong with.
    — Josie Howell | [email protected], 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 | [email protected], al, 16 Apr. 2023
  • But much can go wrong during a long and bumpy transition.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2021
  • In their collective view, a lot more had to go wrong before making such a move.
    — Will Sammon, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • There are just too many things that can go wrong that cross national borders.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 23 June 2026
  • Getting any one of them wrong is recoverable.
    — Song Bac Toh, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • In the past year, it’s gone wrong twice.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 18 June 2026
  • And get annoyed when people spell it wrong anyway?
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
  • But everything seemed to go wrong.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 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.
  • 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
  • This wasn’t an opportunity to defame someone or make this about how I’d been wronged.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2026
  • The real lesson is not that one generation is uniquely wicked or uniquely wronged.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 31 May 2026
  • Francis then sounded off on the critics and naysayers who have seemingly lined up to wrong him.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
  • In Cher, Rattanawadee plays the lead role of the same name, a vengeful spirit out to seek revenge from those who have wronged her in the past.
    — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 13 May 2026

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