Sentence examples for took the wrong turn from inspiring English sources

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"We took the wrong turn," he said, looking down at the restaurant table, where a dish of thick seafood chowder offered to him was growing cold.

When Bugs emerges in the Black Forest, that's the first time he says, 'Gee, I guess I took the wrong turn at Albuquerque' -- a line that became a classic".

"We know that we went on a crossroad and we took the wrong turn," said Ali Soufan, the former FBI agent who interrogated Abu Zubaydah before his torture by the CIA.

They also found out what happened when people took the wrong turn - discovering that the participants' brain activity reflected their expectations of the correct route even when they were wrong, suggesting that subjective belief could override the objectively correct way to make it through the maze.

Though I took the same route twice a day for eight years, the road never became familiar to me, I never recognized the buildings on either side, and I often took the wrong turn, realizing it only when I came to one of two landmarks that were unmistakable, even for me: at one end, Allerton Avenue, which had a large sign, or the Bronx River Parkway, which loomed over the Boston Road.

Somewhere I took the wrong turn.

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And took the wrong turning.

But it was Kennedy again who took the wrong turning.

I took the wrong turning in the aria.

You're going to find the fork where you took the wrong turning (haven't we all gone wrong at some time or other?) and change it.

I'm not sure exactly where it was we took the wrong turning, but it might well have been out of the hotel car park.

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