Sentence examples for blocks in the wrong from inspiring English sources

I walked blocks in the wrong direction, stretching my imagination to make myself think that I was actually seeing what she was pointing out.

As he often does, Remnick spread his hands, as if to reassure a lost tourist that he had not, in fact, walked twenty blocks in the wrong direction, and said, "It'll be here for a while.

I'd come out of a subway and walk for blocks in the wrong direction, searching as my appointment neared for a public map only to find the "You Are Here" X blotted out by the thousands of lost souls before me who pressed their fingers to the same spot in hopes of somehow getting reoriented.

In Battery Park City yesterday morning, Martin Harries, an English professor at New York University, walked several blocks in the wrong direction along South End Avenue looking for signs saying, "Vote Here," only to reach a dead end at a barricade about a block south of the World Financial Center.

I'm late to work cuz I followed this dog for 3 blocks in the wrong direction pic.twitter.com/OmgiWyQZqm.

Coming out of the subway at 23rd Street and Avenue of the Americas, she walked half a block in the wrong direction — east, not west toward her appointment at Ninth Avenue and 21st Street.

The report notes that "while it could simply be easier to detect reoffending" when someone is on probation or parole, it also leads to more "non-criminal violations," which means everything from failed drug tests to missed meetings to merely being on the wrong block in the Tenderloin on the wrong day of the week.

It's not self-canceling and thus had been indicating, for blocks, that, besides being in the wrong lane, I intended to plow into a row of parked cars.

Furthermore, blocks in which wrong MVs are estimated can improperly influence motion estimation in neighboring blocks.

"The beach was three blocks in!

Now the sky you used to see framed by the bridge is blocked by Viñoly's work, the wrong building in the wrong place.