Sentence examples for use the wrong words from inspiring English sources

"I didn't want to use the wrong words," he said.

Discussion between non-experts is important, and generally I think there's too much public condemnation of those who use the wrong words.

I've come here – it's been a chance to talk to Gillian about her family, her relatives and her own history and what she has done, but most of all it's been a chance to apologise and say sorry, and to say sometimes you do make mistakes and you use the wrong words and once you've used the wrong word and made a mistake you should withdraw it and say profound apologies and that's what I've done.

It's inevitable participants will use the wrong words, revert to old habits or have defensive moments.

He's terrified that he'll use the wrong words and won't produce "quality copy".

We ask clumsy questions, use the wrong words, and make rookie mistakes ad nauseam.

Many of us want so desperately to sound intelligent that we use the wrong word because we think it gives the right impression.

I'll use the wrong word or carry the wrong inflection.

To talk about responsibility is to use the wrong word, she says.

So I have had to relearn that literally one word at a time, and sometimes I use the wrong word or can't find words.

Write the wrong thing, or fail to support the right cause, or use the wrong word, and the feminists who consider you one of their own are quick to call foul.