Sentence examples for gone painfully wrong from inspiring English sources

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Conceptually it could have gone painfully wrong but, to the editor’s credit, they have good taste (at times bordering on the pretentious) and vigilantly chose the right people to explain why they do what they do.

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But for more than 600,000 people each year, [something goes painfully wrong.

David Gedge has spent years in the Wedding Present, writing well-turned songs about the ways love can go painfully wrong.

Sitting in a restaurant not far from her Crown Heights home last week, Ms. Maynard talked about a life that began to go painfully wrong in the winter of 1987, when she hurt her back while working as a secretary at a doctor's office in Flatbush.

Cramps are essentially muscle contractions, just like the contractions that make your muscles move, but gone terribly, horribly, painfully wrong.

And school was going painfully slow.

Even the foreign secretary can get it painfully wrong by jumping to conclusions.

"Everything that could go wrong went wrong.

Painfully wrong, perhaps.

But that assumption proved to be painfully wrong.

He's painfully wrong in a way that's setting us back decades.

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