Sentence examples for corrects someone from inspiring English sources

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.

When my spouse corrects someone on my pronouns.

Rafael Poueriet has I think all of one line (he corrects someone on his name) but he's so omnipresent you waste half the show wondering when he's going to have something to do.

"Etiquette is not about correcting someone.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I got started in editing by first of all teaching myself the rudiments of correcting someone else's text and also when to leave enough well alone and how to point out the "whoppers" tactfully.