Sentence examples for worn in the wrong from inspiring English sources

Clothes are worn in "the wrong way"; somebody is suddenly "suspected of selling drugs".

(He was in pretty good spirits until I put my arm around him...) Two Saturdays ago, I watched the Hood By Air runway show, during which several black men, including rap phenom A$AP Rocky, strut in garments that would probably evoke a "faggot" or two if they were worn in the wrong neighborhood.

Coleman noticed that the cogs were worn on the wrong side and suggested that the device was in fact powering the machine.

Lip gloss may look horrible, if worn with the wrong outfit.

I've worn the wrong uniform, turned up at wrong times and thrown up in school toilets.

In Mississippi, infractions serious enough to bring in the police include wearing the wrong shoes (a five-year-old boy's school dress code mandated black shoes; his mother used a marker to blacken his red-and-white shoes, but apparently bits of red and white could still be seen) and wearing the wrong socks.

Feathers can also look immature if worn the wrong way.

Make a big deal if someone in the posse forgets to wear the right colors or wears jeans on the wrong day.

About 8 in 10 women wear the wrong size, experts say.

Nancy Kates discovered in 2008 that wearing the wrong bra to the airport can cause serious trouble.

I mean, when the player who dropped a pass comes back to the sideline, he won't tell his positions coach, "I would have caught it, and probably scored, but some woman in Milwaukee is wearing the wrong shirt".