Sentence examples for I picked up the wrong from inspiring English sources

I think I picked up the wrong kid".

Pick up the wrong stranger at a bar and wind up dead.

Tommy picks up the wrong bag at the Los Angeles airport; the next morning, he and his wife are dead and Daryl is left holding a bag full of heroin.

"I thought they had picked up the wrong baby because they had a really boring life," she says.

Another indicator is a large angle between the estimates of the m-th eigenvector from the two analyses (the dot product of two normalised vectors gives the cosine of the angle between them): if one of the analyses picked up the wrong direction, this is expected to be orthogonal to the true direction, i.e. we expect it to be close to 90°; see Meyer and Kirkpatrick [ 49] for details.

He had picked up the wrong line.

We picked up the wrong person altogether.

As he left, Hutton picked up the wrong jacket.

Someone, it seems, had picked up the wrong digital file of the book.

It's not just that he picked up the wrong bat.

And when you're asked comprehension questions, it's like you picked up the wrong book".