Sentence examples for to the wrong thing from inspiring English sources

Those people were paying attention to the wrong thing.

Now his foundation works with a lot of people "who suddenly became wealthy, realized they could do something and don't want to look stupid and give to the wrong thing," he said.

In order to commit to something, be it a TV series, YouTube channel or video game, we apply all sorts of criteria in the fear that we're committing to the wrong thing.

The game also has the habit of simultaneously providing mission instructions via in-game dialogue and an on-screen text prompt, which at the very least means you miss plot details, but at the worst means you can be left wondering what the hell you're supposed to do next because you paid attention to the wrong thing.

The possibility that one might have only one of them in the mind, through perception or in some other way, and somehow apply it to the wrong thing in the world is not considered (though it is something that Plato allows in the case of incorrect names at Cratylus 430a-431b, where he speaks of pointing or otherwise exhibiting the thing while applying the name to it).

"We don't really know what's going on, and we become reactive to the wrong thing when confronted with a crisis".

The idea is not to give young players the incentive to do the wrong thing just to see the crash.

One of these days one of these suburban kids is going to say the wrong thing to the wrong person".

Raheem had the potential to do the wrong thing, to blow it.

Even if this proves to be the wrong thing, we had to do something.

And never underestimate Cameron and Osborne's ideological temptation to do the wrong thing, or propensity to blunder.