Sentence examples for correct someone from inspiring English sources

If these accusations are correct, someone was taking huge risks with the bank's reputation by breaking the law.

Thomas P. DiNapoli, the New York State comptroller, pronounces it "controller" because it "rolls off the tongue better than 'comp-troller.' But I don't correct someone if they call me comp-troller," he said.

"I think it's reprehensible for a physician to correct someone's feet so they can get into Jimmy Choo shoes," said Dr. Sharon Dreeben, an orthopedic surgeon in La Jolla, Calif., who is chairwoman of the foot and ankle society's public education committee.

But who am I to correct someone else's thought process?

How does one correct someone who is on your side but has bouts of straying like President Obama?

Even those of us who would correct someone who thought we were straight would likely be secretly pleased with being able to pass.

"Etiquette is not about correcting someone.

Correcting someone's grammar, or making acerbic jokes, can have consequences.

Hanssen is of Swedish origin, yet brilliantly there has been no reference to this except for him once correcting someone's pronunciation of "smörgåsbord".

It seems fair to impute at least some of Nuno's energetic contempt to de la Pava himself: This twee fucker in a vest, the kind of douche who corrects someone calling him a writer by specifying he's a novelist.

He once corrected someone who had called a painting of his "only a picture of a house", by pointing out that it was a picture "of a summer's morning, including a house".He liked to think of the landscape as a friend, even as his mistress.