Sentence examples for gives a wrong from inspiring English sources

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

That word "dutifully" gives a wrong colouring to what is, in fact, a highly original book - crisply written, avoiding both jargon-ridden lit-crit theorising and psychobabble.

If a contestant gives a wrong answer, his or her place will be taken in the next show by the viewer who set the question.

"It gives a wrong signal to the North Korean leaders," said Baek Seung-joo, a North Korea specialist at the government-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul.

His chronic overstatement and striving for effect, a kind of forced informality (he calls Bernstein Lenny, Otto Klemperer Klemp) and a certain looseness in the handling of facts (in quick succession he implies a wrong year for the premiere of Mozart's "Magic Flute" and gives a wrong year for an important dinner party) make it hard to put much faith in any particular pronouncement.

As the reconstruction errors shown in Figure 7, JSRC gives a wrong prediction while IJSRC makes a right decision according to the minimum approximation residual criteria.

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He had been given a wrong number.

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.

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

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