Sentence examples for become the wrong thing from inspiring English sources
Because the situation has changed (you've been promoted), what was clearly the right thing before (i.e., doing things yourself) has become the wrong thing, but you are still very good at doing it.
"We don't really know what's going on, and we become reactive to the wrong thing when confronted with a crisis".
Another way that automation can come to grief is when the system works as designed but the pilot becomes confused and does the wrong thing.
Government leaders of both parties were frighteningly naive to think that bankers would do the right thing: they became rich by doing the wrong thing, and plan on staying rich by doing the wrong thing.
We had become so afraid of saying the wrong thing to non-white people in need and in power that we hesitated to talk to them about their problems at all; we had let our fear of giving offense get in the way of doing good work.
She was referring to Salvadoran gangs, who police a strict dress code anyone wearing the wrong thing can become a target, especially those with American habits.
Instead of being angry in advance and ready to attack someone if they said the "wrong" thing, I became more tolerant (are you following me here?).
The fact that history is proving that the war was very much the wrong thing to do becomes secondary to one man's sincere belief.
"The righter we do the wrong thing, the wronger we become".
After decades of dictatorship, the country has become the poorest in south-east Asia and also the most paranoid – there are countless stories of people being arrested for saying the wrong thing in the wrong place.
