Sentence examples for correcting people from inspiring English sources

I like correcting people about him.

I knew I had to stop correcting people, but it's harder than you think when people say things like "Between you and I, he drives too quick".

In Hugh Leonard's comic drama "A Life," Drumm has a habit of correcting people and telling them exactly what he thinks of them.

I remember, as a keen runner in my youth, constantly correcting people who asked me if I was running to get fit.

Because no one knows what SF means, writers and fans are forever telling people it means "science fiction" before correcting people when they say, "Oh, you mean sci-fi," which tends to annoy both parties.

"In The Goat," says Page, "which is very much in the Absurdist theatre, the central character is a pedant - he's always correcting people - so the mixture of pedantry and his out-of-control, dark emotions, hidden emotions, is tragi-comic.

Allah keeps sending prophets to correct people.

She tried to ignore his resentment, and corrected people at parties who called her Mrs. Goldsmith.

Engaged as she is in flagging misuses, however, she doesn't correct people face to face.

Caldwell corrects people when they refer to Hayek as a conservative.

"I'm the only mother," I'd correct people brightly, again and again.