Sentence examples for selecting the wrong from inspiring English sources

A familiar example of selecting the wrong plant for a site is to put pachysandra in a full-sun location.

Even workers in nuclear power plants make "errors in reading gauges, interpreting indicator lights, and selecting the wrong button to push," Casner writes.

"If we create chaos again, we will end up selecting the wrong nominee and we will have lost the momentum we gain in 2010 and we will allow Barack Obama to waltz into the White House".

The mobile version attempts to solve the fat-fingers-small-screen problem with a "link preview" feature that automatically zooms in on links to help users avoid accidentally selecting the wrong one.

Campaign posters appeared for Tamil candidates that gave incorrect selection numbers; voters here choose candidates by numbers and not names, so the posters seemed intended to fool voters into selecting the wrong one.

The mistakes that the teams made, such as putting profit margins ahead of value to customers and selecting the wrong product for their target market, provided genuine examples of what is known, in a phrase that has become popular in American politics recently, as "a teachable moment".

If you select the wrong ROI, simply click its name on the 'Selection' or 'ROI to subtract' box and press the 'Delete' key on your keyboard, and try again.

Because everything has to be scanned in, the picker cannot accidentally select the wrong product.

Scorn from one's peers for having selected the wrong wine?

The New York Times may select the wrong reviewer, and the reviewer may form the wrong judgments.

In the latest instance, court officials say, a clerk simply selected the wrong computer file to post on the site.