Sentence examples for gave a wrong from inspiring English sources

The machine had messed up--the 3-D card gave a wrong message.

If they gave a wrong answer they were supposed to drink a shot of vodka.

The commission, the European Union's executive body, found that the company gave a wrong date to European patent authorities to gain an unfair extension of Losec's patent.

(For the record, we also gave a wrong neighborhood in Brooklyn; misspelled Woodlawn Cemetery as Woodland; misattributed a quotation; and gave the wrong number of minority head coaches in the N.F.L).

Correction Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article omitted the word "Domestic" from the name of the organization that sponsored the event where Mrs. Paterson was a keynote speaker and gave a wrong location.

When he knocked over a coffee cup or gave a wrong answer, he would say, "I'm sorry," suggesting, Dr. Pepperberg says, that he'd "learned that 'I'm sorry' is associated with defusing a tense, angry and potentially dangerous moment".

He had been given a wrong number.

If he takes longer, he will be deemed to have given a wrong answer.

Describing Schiphol as "Europe's fifth largest airport" (Letters, last week) surely gives a wrong impression.

If you don't ask yourself the question, you won't give a wrong answer.

"You make someone lose face if you make them feel that they've given a wrong or silly answer" in a meeting, Mr. Doctoroff said.