Sentence examples for but uses the wrong from inspiring English sources

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What happens if my nephew draws a picture of a flag, but uses the wrong color crayons?

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There's no difference in pronunciation, but using the wrong one when writing is a mistake in the everyday English you use every day.

One was caught in 2003 trying to make a bomb drawing on tips from a website, but using the wrong fertiliser.

Anyone with a vegetable garden knows that herbicides will make quick work of your weeds; but, used the wrong way, they will do the same thing to your food.

Paul Ince and Gascoigne were trying to make each other laugh; Gary Neville stared blankly at the floor, showing all the emotion of an Easter Island statue; Stuart Pearce sang zealously; Adams did too, but using the wrong words.

But using the wrong one, or the wrong one for a particular audience, can wreak havoc. .

The VICE style guide says, "If someone is transgender or a transvestite, use the pronoun of his or her preferred gender").. Fox and Friends' bewilderment is certainly insensitive but using the wrong pronoun or admitting that you don't understand transgender issues isn't all that vicious or transphobic, necessarily.

I wanted to explain how I felt but I used the wrong word.

"He said, 'The world was my oyster, but I used the wrong fork.' " The players nodded, some smiling.

Consider Prohibition: "Good people diagnosed a social ill, but they used the wrong methods to correct it," he wrote.

She made the line sound better than it was, infusing the word "space" with hip-hop bravado, but she used the wrong number of syllables.

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