Wrong example sentences
Related (12): incorrect, mistaken, inaccurate, false, improper, inappropriate, error, mistake, fault, right, correct, accurate
"Wrong" Example Sentences
Common Phrases
- go wrong
- get it wrong
- prove someone wrong
- wrong side of the tracks
- wrong time, wrong place
- rub someone the wrong way
- on the wrong foot
- dead wrong
- nothing wrong with
- what went wrong
- wrong number
- wrong impression
Examples by Level
A1
- This is the wrong answer.
- Is this wrong or right?
A2
- I got the wrong bus and ended up on the other side of town.
- She said I was wrong, but I knew I wasn't.
B1
- Looking back, I realize I was wrong about him from the start.
- There's nothing inherently wrong with changing your mind.
B2
- The wrong decision at that moment cost him everything he'd worked for.
- She'd spent years trying to prove everyone wrong about her abilities.
C1
- What felt intuitively wrong about the proposal was precisely what made it innovative.
- The assumption that progress requires sacrifice is fundamentally wrong, or so the argument goes.
C2
- There's a particular kind of defensiveness that comes from knowing you're wrong but being too invested to admit it.
- The wrong choice, made with full awareness and acceptance of its consequences, somehow feels less like failure.
Examples by Scenario
🏠 Everyday Life
- I've been pronouncing that word wrong for thirty years and nobody ever corrected me.
- The dog went the wrong way and dragged me halfway down the street.
💼 Workplace
- He sent the email to the wrong department and now everyone's confused.
- I think we're approaching this the wrong way, but nobody's asking my opinion.
📊 Business
- The wrong target market cost us millions in wasted advertising spend.
- We made the wrong call on that acquisition and it's haunted us ever since.
🛒 Buying / Shopping
- I grabbed the wrong size and didn't realize until I got home.
- This is the wrong brand — I specifically asked for the other one.
✈️ Travel
- We took the wrong exit and ended up in a completely different country.
- The hotel gave us the wrong room key and we spent twenty minutes trying to figure it out.
📚 Education
- The teacher marked my answer wrong even though I followed the instructions perfectly.
- He's been learning the wrong technique this whole semester.
❤️ Relationships
- I said the wrong thing at the worst possible moment and I've regretted it ever since.
- She knew marrying him was wrong, but she did it anyway.
📰 News / Politics
- The media got the story completely wrong and nobody bothered to issue a correction.
- The government's approach has been wrong from the beginning, according to experts.
💻 Technology
- I clicked the wrong button and accidentally deleted everything.
- The algorithm is recommending the wrong content to the wrong people.
📝 Formal Writing
- The data suggests that the previous methodology was fundamentally wrong in its assumptions.
- It would be wrong to conclude that correlation implies causation in this instance.