Sentence examples for given a wrong from inspiring English sources

He had been given a wrong number.

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

Mr. Zhang said the people who had ordered the food the victim delivered had given a wrong phone number and apartment number with their order.

In a survey of 1,700 women with ovarian cancer, Dr. Goff and other researchers found that 36percentt had initially been given a wrong diagnosis, with conditions like depression or irritable bowel syndrome.

In his second book, "Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men," Sax credits Bender for helping focus a boy who was given a wrong diagnosis of attention-deficit disorder by telling him that his father, who had left the family, would be even less likely to return if all his mother had to report was the boy misbehaving in school.

This is a tough question so even if you give a wrong answer, that's fine.

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

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

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.