Sentence examples for down the wrong street from inspiring English sources

With a plan to excel at ice hockey, he began training on inline skates, moving through his New York City neighborhood, up and down the streets until, he said, "I turned down the wrong street".

Jim Long, a department spokesman, said that a 911 operator took down the wrong street from a caller, but he said the mistake was corrected about two minutes after the firefighters were dispatched.

These aren't the kinds of GPS errors that make you turn down the wrong street when Google Maps fucks up.

He was tired of the fear that he'd be stabbed just walking down the wrong street.

As he put it in a brief: "This parade of horribles marches down the wrong street.

We walked down the wrong street one night and minorly shit our pants when we came across a puddle of fresh blood.

In the moments leading up incident, Owens had caught police attention by going down the wrong way of a street.

They never stops at zebra crossings, frequently jump red lights, and routinely come down the wrong way on no-entry streets.

My children could have been -- could still be -- gunned down in school, on a college campus, or hell, walking across a street at the wrong time, like a friend of ours who was recently murdered in Baltimore on his way home from choir practice, or like my daughter, whose car took a bullet when she drove down the wrong city street at the wrong time of night.

You know that being kidnapped is always a possibility and you also know that it's chance: you happen to be walking down the wrong side of the street and you get caught.

Just then, I looked down the block and saw headlights coming towards us, noting that they were coming down the wrong way on a one-way street.