Sentence examples for the wrong boat from inspiring English sources
"the wrong boat" is correct and usable in written English
You could use it any time you want to refer to a boat that is not appropriate or suitable for some purpose. For example, "I took the wrong boat and now I'm lost."
"I felt I was in the wrong boat".
Unfortunately, he gets on the wrong boat – Marky's boat.
Another risk is that you buy the wrong boat for the waters where you want to cruise.
But sometimes things go badly, and sometimes you learn that you're even on the wrong boat.
That's what happened to three British club reps, or so they said, claiming they accidentally sailed to Syria after they got on the wrong boat on the way home from a club in Cyprus.
Club rep and group spokesman Lewis Ellis, 25, whose Facebook intro says he's the sort of person who will take "any opportunity [that] presents itself" told the Mirror: "The last club closed at 7.30am so we just powered through to our 9am boat trip and ended up blagging our way on to the wrong boat".
The Telegraph's headline best summed up this whole cycle: "Hungover Brits say they 'travelled to Syria by mistake' after boarding wrong boat - but is all as it seems?" It's quite obvious that all is not as it seems, given the guy has just admitted it was a lie to his friends on Facebook, but who cares, if people are clicking on the story anyway?
"People could be seriously injured using the wrong type of boat," Mr. Hickman said.
The men had the wrong sort of boats, insufficient rations and had never run a single river rapid.
(The painting is historically inaccurate: the depicted flag is anachronistic, the boats are the wrong size and shape, and it is questionable whether Washington could have crossed the icy Delaware while standing in the manner depicted).
Against the backdrop of the success of the Orderly Departure Plan – the multilateral UN-run program which, in 1979, began intercepting boat-borne asylum seekers in their first country of refuge and resettling them all over the world, including Australia – there emerged a sense that for people to turn up on boats was the "wrong" way of arriving.
