Sentence examples for at the wrong target from inspiring English sources

You were aiming at the wrong target.

"This was a pointless protest directed at the wrong target.

Beware of throwing your ire at the wrong target.

They may have been hitting at the wrong target.

("Brad Pitt's ex-girlfriend is a freak!") Perhaps Mr. Wayans has aimed at the wrong target.

Their explanation makes no sense, because they are aiming at the wrong target.

The rest of the birds saw that the termite bird was thriving so they developed a beak to eat ants – they aimed at exactly the wrong target and now each manufacturer is falling over itself – and starving – as it goes after the well-hunted ants in a non-diverse ecosystem.

If you're someone who constantly obsesses about becoming an overnight success, you're aiming at entirely the wrong target.

And political marketers take aim at the wrong targets.

He confused sequences of commands, paused inexplicably before reloading, even fired occasionally at the wrong targets.

Simon Jenkins takes aim at the wrong targets when decrying the problems facing the NHS (Here's what my fantasy Labour party would look like, Opinion, 15 January).