Sentence examples for the wrong tale from inspiring English sources

We are always, in this country, obliging refugees to tell their arrival stories: border officials, social workers, charity workers, housing officers all want to know, and the consequences of telling the wrong tale are dire.

The new FX show certainly ticks a lot of the boxes on the "prestige-TV" list: Middle-class white guy who feels oppressed, a nagging wife, frustrations at home and work leading to transgression, widening repercussions, etc. Speaking of "Breaking Bad" parallels, Bob Odenkirk even roams through "Fargo" lending his pitch-perfect comic relief to this frozen Walter-Mitty-gone-very-wrong tale.

About 15 years ago, my husband was scheduled for shoulder surgery ("The Wrong Foot, and Other Tales of Surgical Error," Dec. 11).

The article "The Wrong Foot, and Other Tales of Surgical Error" (Dec. 11) reminded me of the time I was resuscitated after a back operation in a hospital in England.

The family name was on the wrong side of a momentous tale of black and white.

The tale of the wrong patient in the first article, Dr. Wachter said, "is one of these cases where light bulbs go off in people's heads and they say, 'Wow, I now understand how something like this can happen.' It truly is not bad people doing bad things.

Written after the public falls from grace of several church leaders, "Slow Fade" is a cautionary tale against making the wrong choices.

So the Volcker Rule has become a cautionary tale, but for all the wrong reasons.

It is not a tragic example of what happens when you "choose" the wrong man, and it's no more a sad tale of love gone wrong than it is an advertisement for steak knives.

The tale begins when a swan's egg rolls into the wrong nest.

Nate Dunlevy, author of "Blue Blood: Tales of Glory of the Indianapolis Colts," thinks Dickerson taught George the wrong lesson.