Sentence examples for wrong ends from inspiring English sources

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This weekend sees a number of teams at the right and wrong ends of 100% records facing off.

Royal Navy Reserves: it's awful, but quite good if you like stirring things with the wrong ends of spoons sometimes.

Her rhymes are "recombinant" — that is, as she has put it, they tend to be stashed "at the wrong ends of lines and at the middles".

Still I couldn't take end-rhyme seriously, which meant I had to find other ways – I stashed my rhymes at the wrong ends of lines and in the middles".

"Me and Stuart have just had a chat and said it has taken us nine years to realise we are bowling at the wrong ends here," said Anderson, who bowled exclusively from the Rugby Stand End, while Broad came down the hill from the direction of Kirkstall Lane.

The Special Relationship: Uncovered (R4) | iPlayer Charles Paris Mystery: Corporate Bodies ( R4) | iPlayer The First Time With… Jimmy Page (6 Music) | iPlayer I bow to few in my admiration for Peter Hitchens's unerring determination to grasp wrong ends of sticks, too often persuading himself that the end grasped represents the bravely unpopulist when both meanings could better be reversed.

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Oh, wrong end.

The wrong end of a telescope.

"The papers got completely the wrong end of the stick".

Perhaps I'm getting the wrong end of the stick.

It just had the wrong ending for us".

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