Sentence examples for awry from inspiring English sources

But in Egypt, even the best urban plans have tended to go awry.

The story could easily have gone awry but never belly-flops into sentimentality – its feelgood factor is earned.

In Redmayne's award-winning performance, there are subtle hints that something was awry from the off.

Co-written by Jamie-Lynn Spears (sister of Britney), the wistful ballad looks back on a high-school relationship that burned hot and then went awry.

The venue was a dinner party at which both were ­subject to a piece of matchmaking gone awry (it sounds, as Reid describes it, like something from Jane Austen's Emma).

Fair enough, but then we get a clue as to how and why things are going to go awry this time around.

Way back in 1964, Reginald Maudling produced a budget that was based on the assumption of a spring election, but prime minister Sir Alec Douglas Home decided to delay until autumn, and Maudling's "short-term plan" went awry.

Take, for example, my beloved Holloway Road in Islington, north London, where there is a glaring example of urban "planning" gone awry.

Hormuz has been trying to get in on the riches of the free trade zone, Ali says, but each time the plan has gone awry.

It was only when Jak gave her a cardboard box and deposited her outside an office building telling her to deliver it to a man on the top floor that she began to suspect something was awry: "I remember shaking and stumbling up the stairs, because something felt odd".

"We've all got different cheese radars, so sometimes we employ a veto system and that stops thing going awry".